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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which instrument is played at the sidewalk revival?
(a) Mandolin.
(b) Tambourine.
(c) Melodica.
(d) Harmonica.

2. What color notebook does Sonny carry?
(a) Purple.
(b) Orange.
(c) Black.
(d) Green.

3. What instrument does Sonny determine to play?
(a) Drums.
(b) Piano.
(c) Bass.
(d) Guitar.

4. On what does Sonny purpose to rely for education?
(a) High School.
(b) Pell Grants.
(c) GI Bill.
(d) Stafford Loans.

5. On what day does Sonny invite the narrator to hear him play?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Saturday.

6. Which of the following songs is sung at the sidewalk revival?
(a) “When They Ring Those Golden Bells.”
(b) “If I Could Only Hear My Mother Pray Again!”
(c) “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven.”
(d) “When I Hear My Children Pray.”

7. What drink is served to Sonny at the piano?
(a) Scotch and soda.
(b) White Russian.
(c) Scotch and milk.
(d) Bourbon, neat.

8. What musician does Sonny disparage?
(a) Duke Ellington.
(b) Glenn Miller.
(c) Louis Armstrong.
(d) Count Basie.

9. Approximately how long a gap in performance history did Sonny have before taking the narrator to his performance?
(a) A month.
(b) A year.
(c) A week.
(d) A decade.

10. How old is Grace when she dies?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

11. In what branch of the military had Sonny served?
(a) Army.
(b) Air Force.
(c) Navy.
(d) Marines.

12. On what avenue does the narrator live?
(a) Eighth.
(b) Lenox.
(c) St. Nicholas.
(d) Seventh.

13. To what is Sonny’s experience compared?
(a) Swimming.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Skating.
(d) Sprinting.

14. Who rails at Sonny about truancy?
(a) Isabel.
(b) Isabel's father.
(c) Isabel’s mother.
(d) Isabel's brother.

15. From what does Grace die?
(a) Measles.
(b) Polio.
(c) Meningitis.
(d) Scarlet fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. To get away from what had Sonny first left Harlem?

2. To what does the narrator compare Creole’s musicians?

3. Which of the following do the narrator and Sonny drink together?

4. Which of the following does Sonny play with Creole?

5. To which of the following does the narrator compare the drummer?

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