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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whose death does Berniece accuse Boy Willie of having a hand in?
(a) Uncle Doaker's.
(b) Lymon's.
(c) Crawley's.
(d) Mama Ola's.

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

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

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

7. What does Doaker believe is the significance of Sutter's blue suit?
(a) Doaker believes it was the suit Sutter was wearing when he died.
(b) Doaker believes it was the suit Sutter was wearing when he fell in love.
(c) Doaker believes it was the first suit Sutter purchased.
(d) Doaker believes it was his burial suit.

8. Whose ghost does Berniece think she has seen?
(a) Wining Boy.
(b) Mama Ola.
(c) Lymon.
(d) Sutter.

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

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

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

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

13. Which character is afraid to sleep upstairs alone?
(a) Maretha.
(b) Lymon.
(c) Berniece.
(d) Doaker.

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

15. How does the Ghost of the Yellow Dog kill the mob members as revenge for Boy Charles' death?
(a) The Ghost sets them on fire.
(b) The Ghost stabs them.
(c) The Ghost shoots them.
(d) The Ghost drowns them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first name of the Sutter who owned the Charles family as slaves?

2. Lymon and Boy Willie have come to sell what fruit?

3. What does Doaker believe he sees Sutter's ghost doing, which he refuses to tell his sister about?

4. Doaker works for what type of transportation?

5. What does Boy Willie threaten to do to the piano?

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