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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 Wining Boy say he felt breezing through the wind on his last trip home?
(a) Death.
(b) Fear.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Riches.

2. Who carved the piano legs at Sutter's request?
(a) Doaker's father.
(b) Doaker's grandfather.
(c) Doaker.
(d) Doaker's son.

3. Who does Doaker suspect Berniece is having a relationship with?
(a) Sutter.
(b) Wining Boy.
(c) Avery.
(d) Lymon.

4. Boy Willie complains that Lymon is obsessed with what?
(a) Cars.
(b) Money.
(c) Women.
(d) Revenge.

5. Which character admits to having spent time in prison?
(a) Boy Willie.
(b) Lymon.
(c) Berniece.
(d) Uncle Doaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who purchases clothing from Wining Boy?

2. Which character believes that life would be much easier if people stayed at home and appreciated their lives instead of traveling?

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

4. What were the men attempting to steal?

5. What does Boy Willie encourage Berniece to do to get rid of the ghost?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Berniece find out that Boy Willie intends to remove the piano that day, and how does she respond?

2. What events have prompted Doaker to believe that Berniece should sell the piano as soon as possible?

3. What lesson does Boy Willie give Maretha on the piano?

4. When Boy Willie and Lymon realize that they cannot move the piano, how do they respond?

5. What religious rationalization does Boy WIllie have for the revenge he is seeking against the Sutter family?

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

7. How was Lymon's father killed?

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

9. When Avery arrives with his Bible to begin the exorcism, what information does he give Doaker about the state of the new church?

10. What happens when Berniece threatens Boy Willie with the gun?

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