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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT an element in Avery's significant dream?
(a) Babies.
(b) Wolves.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Hobos.

2. What does Berniece do for a living?
(a) Cleans houses.
(b) Repairs automobiles.
(c) Washes laundry.
(d) Tutors children.

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

4. What color is the ghost wearing?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

5. Whose faces are carved into the piano legs at Sutter's request?
(a) His parents' faces.
(b) His and his wife's face.
(c) His children's faces.
(d) His slaves' faces.

6. Which family traded the piano to the Sutter family for slaves?
(a) The Benedicts.
(b) The Whitmans.
(c) The Nolanders.
(d) The Montagues.

7. Lymon wants to go to what city, hoping for better treatment from white people?
(a) New York.
(b) Pittsburgh.
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) Seattle.

8. After Lymon comes home from work and changes, what does he want to go into the city looking for?
(a) Another job.
(b) A new truck.
(c) His father.
(d) Women.

9. Before the dream in which Avery was told to change his profession, what did he do for a living?
(a) He was a traveling chef.
(b) He was a hotel concierge.
(c) He was a window washer.
(d) He was an elevator operator.

10. What does Doaker do for a living?
(a) He is a cook.
(b) He is a conductor.
(c) He performs maintenance.
(d) He is a steward.

11. Which character used to polish the piano every morning?
(a) Berniece.
(b) Uncle Doaker.
(c) Boy Willie.
(d) Mama Ola.

12. Where does Berniece bring her daughter at the end of the first act, in the first scene?
(a) To school.
(b) To the cemetary.
(c) To the doctor's office.
(d) To church.

13. What sound is heard by the characters who attempt to move the piano?
(a) Moaning
(b) Whispering.
(c) Weeping.
(d) Singing.

14. Which character is afraid to sleep upstairs alone?
(a) Maretha.
(b) Lymon.
(c) Doaker.
(d) Berniece.

15. What does Boy Willie think is the most significant part of the piano?
(a) The legs.
(b) The keys.
(c) The music.
(d) The wood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Berniece's daughter?

2. What color is the ghost that Lyman claims killed Sutter?

3. What is Doaker doing when Wining Boy shows up at the house?

4. Which character states that the law of the white man is meaningless, and he has created a new set of laws?

5. Who offers herself to Wining Boy as repayment for helping bail a family member out of jail?

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