The Piano Lesson

Boy Willie is Berneice's

• 30-year-old brother from Sunflower, MS

• uncle who owns the house in Pittsburgh

• husband

• the ghost haunting the family

Who is Berniece and Boy Willie's uncle who works on the railroad?

• Boy Willie

• Lymon Jackson

• Doaker Charles

• Avery

How would you describe Berniece and Boy Willie's relationship?

What do you think Berniece means when she tells Maretha that she shouldn't "be going down there showing [her] color"? There are three possible answers.

• not to be loud, rude, or undignified

• to show her good home training

• not to act the fool around white people

• to keep her clothes clean

In which decade does the play take place?

• The 1890s

• The 1930s

• The 1950s

• The 1970s

Why does Boy Willie come to visit?

• because he had not seen her in 3 years

• to reunite with his long lost relative Wining Boy

• to sell watermelons to get money to buy a new truck

• because he wanted Berniece to sell the piano so he could get money to by land

Who are the current owners of the piano?

• Sutter and his wife

• Doaker and Berniece

• Boy Willie and Berniece

• Wining Boy and Doaker

What is carved on the piano?

• The history of slavery in the U.S.

• The Charles family history

• The Sutter family history

• The Ghosts of the Yellow Dog

Which characters have been to Parchman Farm?

• Boy Willie, Doaker, and Papa Willie Boy

• Boy Willie, Wining Boy, Doaker, and Lymon

• Wining Boy, Doaker, and Boy Charles

• Wining Boy, Boy Charles, and Berniece

Who is Crawley?

• Berniece's husband who passed away

• Doaker and Wining Boy's brother

• Berniece and Boy Willie's dad

• The man who wants to marry Berniece