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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Norwood, what do all the "colored folk" know?
(a) Their place.
(b) Nothing.
(c) How to work in the fields.
(d) How to love him.

2. What does Cora tell Bert he needs to do, regarding his behavior?
(a) He needs to stay positive.
(b) He needs to stand strong.
(c) He needs to tone it down.
(d) He needs to be himself.

3. As he leaves, who does Bert pass in the driveway?
(a) Talbot and William.
(b) Billy and his friend.
(c) William and the storekeeper.
(d) The slave overseer, Talbot, and the storekeeper.

4. What else do the two men discuss?
(a) Politics.
(b) Cora.
(c) Norwood's children.
(d) The weather.

5. After Higgins and Norwood leave, who enters again?
(a) William.
(b) Cora.
(c) Bert.
(d) Sallie.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does Cora come?

2. What are the consequences for Bert's accident?

3. For what does Sallie want to thank Norwood?

4. What does Sallie want to become?

5. To whom is Cora speaking at the end of the scene?

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