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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Bert believe he should not have to do?
(a) Talk with Norwood.
(b) Leave his home.
(c) Stand up to Norwood.
(d) Work out in the fields like the other field hands.

5. What is true about the relationship between the Colonel and Bert, up until this accident?
(a) Bert had been the Colonel's favorite.
(b) Bert and the Colonel were best friends.
(c) Bert and the Colonel were never close.
(d) Bert and the Colonel despised each other.

6. Why does Sallie come in?
(a) To visit with her father.
(b) To see her mother.
(c) To say hello.
(d) To say good-bye.

7. What comment does little Billy make?
(a) He knows the Colonel is his grandpa.
(b) He wants to move in with Bert.
(c) He wants to see his Uncle Bert.
(d) He wishes he was white.

8. Of what does Bert then inform Cora?
(a) He wants to stay and help her.
(b) He is going to go back to work in the fields.
(c) He wants to be an overseer.
(d) He is no longer going to work in the fields.

9. What does Cora tell Bert the Colonel wants to do to him?
(a) Beat.
(b) Speak.
(c) Throw him out.
(d) Yell.

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

11. Why does he try to do this, regarding his position?
(a) He tries to ignore his behavior.
(b) He made a mistake.
(c) He is still a black man, even though he is Norwood's son.
(d) He is half-white and Norwood's son.

12. How has Bert experienced more equal treatment in the big cities?
(a) He has vacationed out of town.
(b) He has traveled on business out of town.
(c) He has run away out of town.
(d) He has gone to school out of town.

13. Who is the first-born son of Cora and the Colonel?
(a) William.
(b) Bert.
(c) Sam.
(d) Billy.

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

15. What does Sallie want to become?
(a) A business woman.
(b) A maid.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A housewife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sam?

2. What does Bert refuse to do when he hears the Colonel coming?

3. How does Bert react to their explanation?

4. What are these men doing as they visit?

5. Soon after, which son comes in?

(see the answer keys)

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