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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) How to love him.
(b) How to work in the fields.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Their place.

2. What does Bert try to do regarding his position?
(a) Ignore it.
(b) Justify it.
(c) Lessen it.
(d) Deny it.

3. What connection do they make?
(a) Between William and Cora's interaction.
(b) Between Norwood's screams and his death.
(c) Between Cora standing there and Norwood's body.
(d) Between the departing Bert and Norwood's death.

4. How does Norwood feel he has treated his "darkies?"
(a) Unfairly.
(b) Poorly.
(c) Fairly.
(d) Badly.

5. When and where does the play begin?
(a) On a spring morning in 1830s Virginia.
(b) On a fall morning in 1830s Georgia.
(c) On a spring afternoon in 1930 Virginia.
(d) On a fall afternoon in 1930s Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bert feel about this entire situation?

2. What is Bert telling everyone?

3. Of what does Cora inform this person?

4. What tale does Bert tell Cora and William?

5. Soon after, which son comes in?

(see the answer key)

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