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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Boy Willie encourage Berniece to do to get rid of the ghost?
(a) Read the Bible.
(b) Wash the floors.
(c) Sell the piano.
(d) Cut off her hair.

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

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

5. What instrument does Boy Willie hope to sell to make a bit of money?
(a) A piano.
(b) A drum kit.
(c) A trombone.
(d) A cello.

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

7. Doaker works for what type of transportation?
(a) Trains.
(b) Taxis.
(c) Subways.
(d) Airplanes.

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

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

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

11. What was Wining Boy's profession?
(a) He was a coal miner.
(b) He was a recording star.
(c) He was a backup dancer.
(d) He was a wine maker.

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

13. Which character states that the law of the white man is meaningless, and he has created a new set of laws?
(a) Lymon.
(b) Boy Willie.
(c) Wining Boy.
(d) Doaker.

14. Which character can be seen ironing his uniform?
(a) Wining Boy.
(b) Doaker.
(c) Boy Willie.
(d) Lymon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After meeting a ghost on the railroad tracks, Wining Boy claims that he has had good luck for how long?

2. What does Boy Willie tell Wining Boy that he wants to purchase?

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

4. What name was the ghost repeating?

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

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