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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. Lymon and Boy Willie have come to sell what fruit?
(a) Watermelon.
(b) Strawberries.
(c) Tomatoes.
(d) Bananas.

2. What is Doaker doing when Wining Boy shows up at the house?
(a) Hanging laundry.
(b) Cooking dinner.
(c) Washing dishes.
(d) Mopping floors.

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

4. How much fruit does Boy Willie tell Avery he can take free of charge?
(a) One.
(b) As much as he wants.
(c) Zero.
(d) Five.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Wining Boy brought to the city to pawn?

2. Doaker gives long instructions on the proper way to buy what grocery item?

3. Doaker works for what type of transportation?

4. Who does Doaker suspect Berniece is having a relationship with?

5. Where does Berniece bring her daughter at the end of the first act, in the first scene?

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 lesson does Boy Willie give Maretha on the piano?

3. After a long day selling watermelons and trying to pawn clothing, how do the men in the Charles family settle down to relax?

4. What does Lymon tell Berniece he is looking for in a woman?

5. How does Berniece react when she sees Boy Willie attempting to move the piano?

6. How was Lymon's father killed?

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

8. How does Avery begin his exorcism of Sutter's ghost?

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

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

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