View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Boy Willie is trying to sell his fruit in what type of neighborhood?
(a) Rich white neighborhoods.
(b) Poor white neighborhoods.
(c) Rich black neighborhoods.
(d) Poor black neighborhoods.

3. Who carved the piano legs at Sutter's request?
(a) Doaker's son.
(b) Doaker's father.
(c) Doaker's grandfather.
(d) Doaker.

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

5. Which character admits to having spent time in prison?
(a) Boy Willie.
(b) Lymon.
(c) Berniece.
(d) Uncle Doaker.

6. Berniece claims she saw what before she left the house on the day that Wining Boy went to the city?
(a) Dark shadows dancing.
(b) The ghost of Yellow Dog.
(c) Her father's face.
(d) Sutter's ghost.

7. What is the first name of the Sutter who owned the Charles family as slaves?
(a) Robert.
(b) Rodney.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Reginald.

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

9. What color is the ghost that Lyman claims killed Sutter?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Yellow.

10. What type of song does Boy Willie play on the piano?
(a) A jazzy boogie-woogie.
(b) A dreamy lullabye.
(c) An advanced jig.
(d) A beginner's song.

11. After Lymon comes home from work and changes, what does he want to go into the city looking for?
(a) A new truck.
(b) His father.
(c) Women.
(d) Another job.

12. Which character becomes very emotional and attacks Boy Willie upon seeing the piano moved?
(a) Doaker.
(b) Lyman.
(c) Berniece.
(d) Maretha.

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

14. After the story about Boy Charles' death, what does the family hear Maretha doing at the end of the first act?
(a) Praying.
(b) Crying.
(c) Screaming.
(d) Singing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem continually plagues Boy Willie and Lyman as they attempt to sell their fruit?

2. Which of the following was NOT an element in Avery's significant dream?

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

4. What does Wining Boy carry with him that has a weight as heavy as a piano?

5. What is the name of Wining Boy's late ex-wife?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 429 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample