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

2. What does Avery do for a living?
(a) He is a blacksmith.
(b) He is a preacher.
(c) He is a teacher.
(d) He is a carpenter.

3. What is the first name of the Sutter who owned the Charles family as slaves?
(a) Reginald.
(b) Rodney.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Robert.

4. When Boy Willie realizes that Wining Boy is in town, what does he ask him for?
(a) A wife.
(b) A loan.
(c) A place to stay.
(d) Business advice.

5. Whose faces are carved into the piano legs at Sutter's request?
(a) His parents' faces.
(b) His children's faces.
(c) His and his wife's face.
(d) His slaves' faces.

Short Answer Questions

1. Boy Willie is trying to sell his fruit in what type of neighborhood?

2. How much money does Wining Boy ask for as a loan from Doaker?

3. What is the last name of the family that the story focuses on?

4. How much fruit does Lyman and Boy Willie sell on the day that Wining Boy goes to the city?

5. Who does Boy Willie expect to teach Maretha about the significance of the piano?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Berniece send Maretha to the store on the day that Boy Willie intends to remove the piano?

2. What is revealed about Wining Boy's life as a musician while married?

3. What was Ophelia's reaction to the trade between her husband and Nolander?

4. What reason does Berniece give her brother for wanting him out of the house?

5. What does Berniece ask Avery to do after Maretha has seen Sutter's ghost, and how does Avery respond?

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

7. When Berniece and Lymon's conversation turns to Avery, what advice does Lymon give to Berniece about the relationship?

8. What does Boy Willie believe about the laws of the white man?

9. Whose ghost does Berniece think that she sees, and what does it tell her?

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

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