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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Doaker doing when Wining Boy shows up at the house?
(a) Washing dishes.
(b) Mopping floors.
(c) Cooking dinner.
(d) Hanging laundry.

2. What name was the ghost repeating?
(a) Boy Willie.
(b) Lymon.
(c) Uncle Doaker.
(d) Mama Ola.

3. Where does Berniece bring her daughter at the end of the first act, in the first scene?
(a) To school.
(b) To the cemetary.
(c) To the doctor's office.
(d) To church.

4. What is the name of Avery's church?
(a) The Hands of God.
(b) The Light of the World.
(c) The Mannah of Man.
(d) The Good Shepherd.

5. Which character believes that life would be much easier if people stayed at home and appreciated their lives instead of traveling?
(a) Doaker.
(b) Avery.
(c) Lymon.
(d) Boy Willie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Doaker do for a living?

2. Which of the following characters does Boy Willie NOT ask about the potential buyer of the piano?

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

4. What does Avery do for a living?

5. Whose death does Berniece accuse Boy Willie of having a hand in?

(see the answer key)

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