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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Boy Willie react to the story of Boy Charles' death?
(a) He is enraged.
(b) He is stunned.
(c) He is amused.
(d) He is apathetic.

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

3. What does Boy Willie tell Wining Boy that he wants to purchase?
(a) More fruit.
(b) A new piano.
(c) A new car.
(d) Sutter's land.

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

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

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

7. Which of the following was NOT an element in Avery's significant dream?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Hobos.
(c) Babies.
(d) Wolves.

8. What does Boy Willie threaten to do to the piano?
(a) He threatens to burn it.
(b) He threatens to chop it in half.
(c) He threatens to stomp it to dust.
(d) He threatens to steal it in the night.

9. Who tells Boy Willie the story of the way that Boy Charles was killed?
(a) Doaker.
(b) Sutter.
(c) Wining Boy.
(d) Lymon.

10. What is the name of Berniece's daughter?
(a) Maretha.
(b) Mama Ola.
(c) Molly.
(d) Margret.

11. Which of the following characters does NOT attempt to move the piano?
(a) Boy Willie.
(b) Wining Boy.
(c) Berniece.
(d) Doaker.

12. What does Doaker do for a living?
(a) He is a cook.
(b) He is a steward.
(c) He performs maintenance.
(d) He is a conductor.

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

14. What does Wining Boy carry with him that has a weight as heavy as a piano?
(a) His talent.
(b) His questions.
(c) His guilt.
(d) HIs fears.

15. Who does Wining Boy reveal he helped bail out of jail?
(a) Lymon's father.
(b) Lymon's cousin.
(c) Lymon.
(d) Lymon's brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much fruit does Lyman and Boy Willie sell on the day that Wining Boy goes to the city?

2. When the group is singing prison songs, which character is asked to play the piano?

3. Which character used to polish the piano every morning?

4. What is the last name of the family that the story focuses on?

5. How does Boy Willie react to Berniece's claim that she has seen a ghost?

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