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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is Colonel Thomas Norwood?
(a) A wealthy businessman who is about 60.
(b) A plantation owner who is about 60.
(c) A school teacher who is about 40.
(d) An overseer who is about 40.

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

6. What does Norwood come in and order Bert to do?
(a) Go to his room.
(b) Leave out the back door.
(c) Move out.
(d) Sit down.

7. With what does the Colonel start to follow Bert?
(a) A letter.
(b) A pistol.
(c) A bat.
(d) A knife.

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

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

10. Where do Sally and Bert go when he pulls up outside?
(a) The train station.
(b) The library.
(c) The bus stop.
(d) The airport.

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

12. How does Bert react to their explanation?
(a) He understands their concerns.
(b) He dismisses their concerns.
(c) He agrees to move north.
(d) He resents them for their concerns.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens from the accident on, between the Colonel and Bert?

2. What is the real outrage about Bert's behavior?

3. What does Bert once accidentally do when he is a young boy?

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

5. What are these men doing as they visit?

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