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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What name was the ghost repeating?
(a) Uncle Doaker.
(b) Lymon.
(c) Mama Ola.
(d) Boy Willie.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of song does Maretha play on the piano?

2. After the story about Boy Charles' death, what does the family hear Maretha doing at the end of the first act?

3. What is Doaker doing when Wining Boy shows up at the house?

4. Berniece claims she saw what before she left the house on the day that Wining Boy went to the city?

5. Lymon wants to go to what city, hoping for better treatment from white people?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Wining Boy reveal about Lymon's father and Wining Boy's relationship with Lymon's mother?

2. What trade was made between the Charles and Sutter families at Ophelia's request?

3. What happens when Boy Willie and Lymon attempt to move the piano for its potential buyer?

4. What confrontation do Boy Willie and Berniece get into as Boy Willie watches Berniece comb Maretha's hair?

5. What happens when Doaker emerges to see Boy Willie and Lymon attempting to move the piano?

6. What conflict arises between the siblings surrounding the future of the piano?

7. How did Avery get the idea to switch his profession to preacher?

8. What happens between Boy Willie and Grace once they left to return to her apartment?

9. How did Sutter react to the disappearance of his prized piano?

10. What does Boy Willie claim is the history of the railroad known as the Yellow Dog line?

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