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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Their money keeps getting stolen.
(d) The two men keep bickering.

2. What does Wining Boy say he felt breezing through the wind on his last trip home?
(a) Riches.
(b) Fear.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Death.

3. Where does Sutter find and kill Boy Charles?
(a) At the train station.
(b) At the general store.
(c) At the swimming pool.
(d) At the movie theater.

4. How much fruit does Lyman and Boy Willie sell on the day that Wining Boy goes to the city?
(a) They sell every last one.
(b) Nearly all.
(c) They sell none.
(d) A little.

5. After meeting a ghost on the railroad tracks, Wining Boy claims that he has had good luck for how long?
(a) Three years.
(b) Thirty days.
(c) Thirty years.
(d) Three days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character is afraid to sleep upstairs alone?

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

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

4. What sound is heard by the characters who attempt to move the piano?

5. How does Boy Willie react to the story of Boy Charles' death?

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