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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why has this guest come?
(a) To tell the Colonel that Sallie is going to school to be a teacher.
(b) To plead Bert's case.
(c) To warn the Colonel of the growing resentment of the white community towards Bert.
(d) To visit with the Colonel.

2. What does Bert once accidentally do when he is a young boy?
(a) Tell Norwood he does not like him in front of his rich white friends.
(b) Refer to Norwood as "papa" in front of the Colonel's rich white friends.
(c) Hug Norwood in front of his rich white friends.
(d) Get lost in the fields.

3. What does Cora tell Bert about where he lives?
(a) He needs to understand that he is no longer living up North.
(b) He should move back up north.
(c) He needs to help out at home.
(d) He is Norwood's son.

4. He knows he is neither black nor white, and he looks just like who?
(a) Norwood.
(b) All other white men.
(c) Cora.
(d) His grandmother.

5. What do Cora and William worry about Bert's place in society?
(a) He will never know his place.
(b) He cannot find his place.
(c) He knows his place.
(d) He has no place.

6. For what does the guest chide the Colonel?
(a) For not remarrying a white woman.
(b) For not marrying Cora.
(c) For having a black mistress.
(d) For keeping a black mistress in his home like a wife.

7. What do Cora and William try to explain to Bert?
(a) That Bert must go back north for school.
(b) His behavior may end tragically for him and the rest of his family.
(c) Billie is too young to live with Bert.
(d) Sallie has to leave to go to school.

8. For what does Sallie want to thank Norwood?
(a) For allowing her to go to school to be a teacher.
(b) Her spending money.
(c) For letting her stay in his home.
(d) His kind treatment of her and the other "colored children."

9. What happens as Cora and William worry about Bert's place in society?
(a) Billy enters.
(b) Norwood enters.
(c) Bert enters.
(d) Sallie enters.

10. What does Sam slyly inform the Colonel about Bert?
(a) Bert is moving back north.
(b) Bert has not yet arrived home.
(c) Bert already took Sallie's luggage out the front door.
(d) He has seen Bert using the front door.

11. Whose son is young Billy?
(a) Norwood.
(b) William.
(c) Sallie.
(d) Cora.

12. What do Cora and Bert begin to do, after he tells her this news?
(a) They hug.
(b) They begin to cry.
(c) They begin to understand one another.
(d) They begin to argue again.

13. How is Bert also riling up the white townspeople?
(a) By driving recklessly and acting as "good as a white [man]."
(b) That he is rich.
(c) By telling them that black people are better than white people.
(d) By sounding more educated than the white men.

14. How does Bert feel about this entire situation?
(a) Sad.
(b) Indignant.
(c) Worried.
(d) Scared.

15. What tale does Bert tell Cora and William?
(a) A different tale from what Higgins had told the Colonel.
(b) The same tale of the radio tubes that Higgins told the Colonel, and he is very sorry.
(c) A similar tale to what Higgins had told the Colonel.
(d) The same tale of the radio tubes that Higgins told the Colonel earlier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else do the two men discuss?

2. How does Bert feel about his actions?

3. Who is Colonel Thomas Norwood?

4. Why does Sam ask if it would be acceptable to take Sallie's luggage out the front door to the car?

5. With what does the Colonel start to follow Bert?

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