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

2. What are these men doing as they visit?
(a) Smoking.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Singing.
(d) Drinking.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is Sallie careful not to acknowledge?
(a) How much money the schooling will cost.
(b) The Colonel's kindness.
(c) That she does not want to be a teacher.
(d) The children's true parentage.

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

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

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

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

15. What does the guest warn the Colonel about Bert, if he does indeed get arrested for his behavior?
(a) His case could go to trial.
(b) There is a good chance the white men might break into the jail and lynch him.
(c) It will be costly to bail him out.
(d) He will be in jail for some time.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bert believe he should not have to do?

3. He knows he is neither black nor white, and he looks just like who?

4. What does Bert try to do regarding his position?

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

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