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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. Which character admits to being on the run from the police?
(a) Lymon.
(b) Boy Willie.
(c) Uncle Doaker.
(d) Sutter.
2. What does Berniece do for a living?
(a) Washes laundry.
(b) Cleans houses.
(c) Tutors children.
(d) Repairs automobiles.
3. Who does Boy Willie expect to teach Maretha about the significance of the piano?
(a) Doaker.
(b) Avery.
(c) Momma Ola.
(d) Berniece.
4. Which character states that the law of the white man is meaningless, and he has created a new set of laws?
(a) Lymon.
(b) Doaker.
(c) Wining Boy.
(d) Boy Willie.
5. Who does the grocery shopping in the Charles home?
(a) Doaker.
(b) Maretha.
(c) Berniece.
(d) Boy Willie.
Short Answer Questions
1. What has Wining Boy brought to the city to pawn?
2. What beverage do the men drink while discussing Parchman Prison?
3. What name was the ghost repeating?
4. How much fruit does Lyman and Boy Willie sell on the day that Wining Boy goes to the city?
5. Which character becomes very emotional and attacks Boy Willie upon seeing the piano moved?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Boy Willie believe about the laws of the white man?
2. What does Boy Willie claim has happened to the man named Sutter?
3. What trade was made between the Charles and Sutter families at Ophelia's request?
4. What type of encounter does Boy Willie explain that he has had with the piano's potential buyer on his way home from Grace's?
5. What events have prompted Doaker to believe that Berniece should sell the piano as soon as possible?
6. What kind of fight does Boy Willie get into with Sutter's ghost?
7. Why won't Wining Boy play the piano when he is asked to?
8. What realization does Boy Willie make when he hears his heart beating as a "black man's heart"?
9. How was Lymon's father killed?
10. Why did Berneice stop playing the piano as a child?
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