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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lymon wants to go to what city, hoping for better treatment from white people?
(a) New York.
(b) Pittsburgh.
(c) Seattle.
(d) Washington D.C.

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

3. What was Wining Boy's occupation while he was married?
(a) He was a musician.
(b) He was a student.
(c) He was a blacksmith.
(d) He was a doctor.

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

5. Who does Boy Willie expect to teach Maretha about the significance of the piano?
(a) Avery.
(b) Berniece.
(c) Doaker.
(d) Momma Ola.

6. Which member of the Sutter family desperately wanted the piano?
(a) Constance.
(b) Lillian.
(c) Ophelia.
(d) Veronica.

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

8. Boy Willie complains that Lymon is obsessed with what?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Cars.
(c) Money.
(d) Women.

9. Which family traded the piano to the Sutter family for slaves?
(a) The Benedicts.
(b) The Whitmans.
(c) The Nolanders.
(d) The Montagues.

10. What does Boy Willie hope to buy from Sutter?
(a) His crops.
(b) His land.
(c) His house.
(d) His piano.

11. Who does Doaker suspect Berniece is having a relationship with?
(a) Sutter.
(b) Avery.
(c) Lymon.
(d) Wining Boy.

12. What does Doaker believe he sees Sutter's ghost doing, which he refuses to tell his sister about?
(a) Staring at Berniece while she slept.
(b) Playing the piano.
(c) Following Maretha to school.
(d) Chasing after Boy Willie.

13. When Wining Boy returns home from the city, how much money does he say he received?
(a) He received no money.
(b) Twenty dollars.
(c) Ten dollars.
(d) Five dollars.

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

15. Who offers herself to Wining Boy as repayment for helping bail a family member out of jail?
(a) Lymon's aunt.
(b) Lymon's mother.
(c) Lymon's sister.
(d) Lymon's cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. The piano is stolen from the Sutter home during which holiday celebration?

2. What beverage do the men drink while discussing Parchman Prison?

3. What color is the ghost wearing?

4. Whose faces are carved into the piano legs at Sutter's request?

5. What instrument does Boy Willie hope to sell to make a bit of money?

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