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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How long ago does Bynum say he learned the song?
(a) six months ago
(b) fifteen years ago
(c) ten years ago
(d) four years ago
2. What does Bynum say Joe Turner wanted from Loomis?
(a) his soul
(b) his song
(c) his love
(d) his life
3. What does Seth say Joe Turner wanted from Loomis?
(a) his sweat and caring
(b) someone to do his work for him
(c) someone to make him feel big
(d) someone to take his anger out on
4. What does Seth apologize to Molly for?
(a) getting angry
(b) the late breakfast
(c) asking for too much money
(d) Loomis' behavior
5. What dead person does Reuben say he saw?
(a) Bertha's father
(b) Seth's grandfather
(c) Seth's mother
(d) Bertha's grandmother
6. What does Loomis tell Zonia to do at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) stay around the house
(b) stop bothering Bertha
(c) take a message to the church
(d) go out and play
7. What was Loomis doing when Joe Turner caught him?
(a) sleeping under a tree
(b) fishing at a public pond
(c) preaching to gamblers
(d) buying bread
8. What does Reuben suggest might have happened to Zonia's mother?
(a) She might have married again.
(b) She might have changed her name.
(c) She might be dead.
(d) She might have left the country.
9. What does Bertha describe as Jeremy's flaw?
(a) being ignorant
(b) being blind
(c) being foolish
(d) being young
10. Who does he say made up the song?
(a) women
(b) men
(c) children
(d) a bartender
11. What has Joe Turner come with?
(a) a paper from a man
(b) a golden necklace
(c) a letter from a woman
(d) forty links of chain
12. Why did Martha move up North?
(a) because she was lonely in the South
(b) because her church moved
(c) because she didn't want to see Herald
(d) because she was afraid of her mother
13. In what context does Bynum use the play's title?
(a) quoting his grandmother
(b) in song lyrics
(c) in advice to Mattie
(d) in a story about his youth
14. What does Seth warn Jeremy, now that Jeremy has no job?
(a) Jeremy will have to get his job back, at less money.
(b) Jeremy will have to sell his guitar.
(c) Jeremy will be out a place to live by Saturday.
(d) Jeremy will get arrested for vagrancy.
15. What odd shift does Seth work?
(a) at night
(b) on the weekends
(c) two hours on, two hours off
(d) every other day
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Loomis compare Joe Turner catching slaves to?
2. Who does Bertha say was doing the same as Loomis?
3. Who was Joe Turner's brother?
4. What does Jeremy suggest Molly needs a man for?
5. What does Zonia's father say can happen if you miss someone too much?
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