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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sound is heard by the characters who attempt to move the piano?
(a) Singing.
(b) Weeping.
(c) Moaning
(d) Whispering.

2. When the group is singing prison songs, which character is asked to play the piano?
(a) Boy Willie.
(b) Maretha.
(c) Berniece.
(d) Wining Boy.

3. Which man was NOT involved in the theft that landed Boy Willie in prison?
(a) Lymon.
(b) Crawley.
(c) Doaker.
(d) Boy Willie.

4. Which character is said to have played the carved piano until his/her death?
(a) Sutter's son.
(b) Sutter.
(c) Sutter's wife.
(d) Sutter's mother.

5. What problem continually plagues Boy Willie and Lyman as they attempt to sell their fruit?
(a) Their truck keeps breaking down.
(b) Their fruit keeps rotting.
(c) The two men keep bickering.
(d) Their money keeps getting stolen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who teases Doaker about the women who are after him?

2. What is the name of Avery's church?

3. Lymon and Boy Willie have come to sell what fruit?

4. What type of song does Maretha play on the piano?

5. Who tells Boy Willie the story of the way that Boy Charles was killed?

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