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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character has a change of heart after seeing Sutter's ghost and now believes that the piano should be sold?
(a) Wining Boy.
(b) Berniece.
(c) Lymon.
(d) Doaker.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. After the story about Boy Charles' death, what does the family hear Maretha doing at the end of the first act?
(a) Screaming.
(b) Crying.
(c) Singing.
(d) Praying.

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

10. After meeting a ghost on the railroad tracks, Wining Boy claims that he has had good luck for how long?
(a) Three days.
(b) Three years.
(c) Thirty days.
(d) Thirty years.

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

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

13. What is Lymon's last name?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Brown.
(c) Macintosh.
(d) Avery.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the aftermath of the theft, where was Lymon shot?

2. Where does Sutter find and kill Boy Charles?

3. What sound is heard by the characters who attempt to move the piano?

4. What was Wining Boy's occupation while he was married?

5. Who does Wining Boy reveal he helped bail out of jail?

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