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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 5, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does Wining Boy ask for as a loan from Doaker?
(a) Fifty dollars.
(b) Ten dollars.
(c) Five dollars.
(d) Twenty dollars.

2. Whose faces are carved into the piano legs at Sutter's request?
(a) His slaves' faces.
(b) His and his wife's face.
(c) His parents' faces.
(d) His children's faces.

3. What is Lymon's last name?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Macintosh.
(c) Avery.
(d) Brown.

4. What does Boy Willie threaten to do to the piano?
(a) He threatens to stomp it to dust.
(b) He threatens to steal it in the night.
(c) He threatens to burn it.
(d) He threatens to chop it in half.

5. How far does the pair move the piano before their attempts are thwarted?
(a) They are unable to move the piano.
(b) They move the piano to the other side of the room.
(c) They move the piano to the truck.
(d) They move the piano out onto the lawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character believes that life would be much easier if people stayed at home and appreciated their lives instead of traveling?

2. Which character states that the law of the white man is meaningless, and he has created a new set of laws?

3. When Wining Boy returns home from the city, how much money does he say he received?

4. Which character has a change of heart after seeing Sutter's ghost and now believes that the piano should be sold?

5. Boy Willie is trying to sell his fruit in what type of neighborhood?

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