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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. What does Bert believe he should not have to do?
(a) Work out in the fields like the other field hands.
(b) Stand up to Norwood.
(c) Leave his home.
(d) Talk with Norwood.

2. What does Bert once accidentally do when he is a young boy?
(a) Refer to Norwood as "papa" in front of the Colonel's rich white friends.
(b) Tell Norwood he does not like him in front of his rich white friends.
(c) Hug Norwood in front of his rich white friends.
(d) Get lost in the fields.

3. What tale does Bert tell Cora and William?
(a) The same tale of the radio tubes that Higgins told the Colonel, and he is very sorry.
(b) A different tale from what Higgins had told the Colonel.
(c) A similar tale to what Higgins had told the Colonel.
(d) The same tale of the radio tubes that Higgins told the Colonel earlier.

4. Whose son is young Billy?
(a) Cora.
(b) Sallie.
(c) William.
(d) Norwood.

5. What is Sallie careful not to acknowledge?
(a) How much money the schooling will cost.
(b) That she does not want to be a teacher.
(c) The Colonel's kindness.
(d) The children's true parentage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Norwood come in and order Bert to do?

2. What else do the two men discuss?

3. Who does Cora first blame for the comment Billy makes, then realizes blame lies with Bert?

4. Why has this guest come?

5. What does the guest warn the Colonel about Bert, if he does indeed get arrested for his behavior?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as Act I closes?

2. About what does this guest chide the Colonel? About what does he warn the Colonel?

3. What does William try to do one more time? What is Cora's response?

4. How does the Colonel respond to Sam's question? What does Sam say about Bert? What stops the Colonel from fully processing what Sam has said to him?

5. How does the Colonel feel about Robert's behavior?

6. What do Cora, William, and Bert discuss?

7. What does Bert plan to do to himself?

8. What does Norwood do when he enters the room?

9. How does Cora compare William to herself?

10. What does William do when he arrives?

(see the answer keys)

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