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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boy Willie think is the most significant part of the piano?
(a) The wood.
(b) The keys.
(c) The legs.
(d) The music.

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

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

4. When Wining Boy returns from the city, where has Berniece gone?
(a) To jail.
(b) To church.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) To work.

5. Which character admits to being on the run from the police?
(a) Lymon.
(b) Boy Willie.
(c) Uncle Doaker.
(d) Sutter.

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

7. How did Sutter's wife feel about the trade of her slaves for the piano?
(a) She was apathetic toward the trade.
(b) She was pleased with the trade.
(c) She was angered by the trade.
(d) She regretted the trade.

8. Who does the grocery shopping in the Charles home?
(a) Doaker.
(b) Berniece.
(c) Maretha.
(d) Boy Willie.

9. Which of the following characters does Boy Willie NOT ask about the potential buyer of the piano?
(a) Maretha.
(b) Avery.
(c) Berniece.
(d) Doaker.

10. What has Wining Boy brought to the city to pawn?
(a) The piano.
(b) Sheets of music.
(c) His suit.
(d) His car.

11. 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.

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

13. Before the dream in which Avery was told to change his profession, what did he do for a living?
(a) He was an elevator operator.
(b) He was a window washer.
(c) He was a hotel concierge.
(d) He was a traveling chef.

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

15. How does Sutter kill Boy Charles?
(a) He set him on fire.
(b) He shot him.
(c) He drowned him.
(d) He stabbed him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Doaker do for a living?

2. Where does Berniece bring her daughter at the end of the first act, in the first scene?

3. Which character is afraid to sleep upstairs alone?

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

5. Which of the following characters is NOT involved in stealing the piano from the Sutter home?

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