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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bert refuse to do when he hears the Colonel coming?
(a) Stand his ground.
(b) Go to his room.
(c) Run away out the back door.
(d) Talk to the Colonel.

3. What happens from the accident on, between the Colonel and Bert?
(a) Love grows on both sides.
(b) Both of their personalities change.
(c) Resentment grows on both sides.
(d) Sadness grows on both sides.

4. What do Cora and William discuss, regarding Bert?
(a) His headstrong ways.
(b) How smart he is.
(c) How he should move back north.
(d) How he looks like his father.

5. What does this guest relate to the Colonel?
(a) Bert's latest offense.
(b) What news there is to find around town.
(c) The truth of what happened to Bert today.
(d) Sallie is not headed to the airport.

6. On what does little Billy begin playing?
(a) The furniture.
(b) The floor.
(c) A fiddle.
(d) A washboard.

7. 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 despised each other.
(c) Bert and the Colonel were best friends.
(d) Bert and the Colonel were never close.

8. What does Robert do as the act ends?
(a) Goes to his room.
(b) Hugs the Colonel.
(c) Runs out the back door.
(d) Walks proudly out the front door.

9. Who is Sam?
(a) The Colonel's business partner.
(b) An elderly black man who is a personal assistant to the Colonel.
(c) An elderly white man who is the Colonel's neighbor.
(d) Another teacher at the school.

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

11. What does Sallie try to do for Bert?
(a) Get him a hotel room.
(b) Get him to move back north.
(c) Plead his case.
(d) Help him move.

12. Who arrives as Sallie departs?
(a) Norwood's friend Henry Higgins.
(b) Norwood's friend Fred Higgins.
(c) Norwood's cousin George Talbot.
(d) Norwood's servant Sam.

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

14. What is the real outrage about Bert's behavior?
(a) He dared to argue with a white woman.
(b) He did not pay for the damages.
(c) He had not asked permission of the Colonel.
(d) He did not apologize.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam slyly inform the Colonel about Bert?

2. What does Cora tell Bert the Colonel wants to do to him?

3. What happens as Cora and William worry about Bert's place in society?

4. On what subject do Bert, Cora and William stay?

5. How does Bert react to their explanation?

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