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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 member of the Sutter family desperately wanted the piano?
(a) Veronica.
(b) Constance.
(c) Ophelia.
(d) Lillian.

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

3. What does Boy Willie hope to buy from Sutter?
(a) His crops.
(b) His land.
(c) His house.
(d) His piano.

4. When Wining Boy returns from the city, where has Berniece gone?
(a) To church.
(b) To work.
(c) To jail.
(d) To the hospital.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Doaker believe he sees Sutter's ghost doing, which he refuses to tell his sister about?

2. Which of the following was NOT an element in Avery's significant dream?

3. Which character is afraid to sleep upstairs alone?

4. How much fruit does Boy Willie tell Avery he can take free of charge?

5. What sound is heard by the characters who attempt to move the piano?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reaction does the family have to Boy Willie's sudden arrival at their doorstep?

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

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

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

5. How do Boy Willie and Lymon end up in Pittsburgh?

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

7. How does Avery believe Sutter died, and what reasoning does he give to back up his argument?

8. How did the piano come into the possession of the Charles family?

9. Why did Berneice stop playing the piano as a child?

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

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