The city in which the author, August Wilson, was born
What is Pittsburgh?
100
A period of economic downturn during which the story took place
What is the Great Depression?
100
This object was the story of the whole Charles family
What is the piano?
100
Lymon and Boy Willie try to sell these items
What are watermelons?
200
Said "The Bible say an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and a life for a life."
Who is Boy Willie?
200
Wilson's favorite genre of music which had an influence in his writing
What is Blues?
200
A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land.
What is sharecropping?
200
The ghosts of the Yellow Dog and Sutter represent this
What is the struggle of African-Americans during slavery?
200
The alleged way that Sutter died
What is being pushed into a well by the Ghosts of the Yellow Dog?
300
This character is always asking for money.
Who is Wining Boy?
300
The painting that inspired Wilson to write “The Piano Lesson”
What is Romare Bearden's painting?
300
The name of the location, nicknamed Little Harlem, in Pittsburgh where the story was set which became a thriving African American neighborhood during the 1930s-1950s
What is the Hill District?
300
Served as a connection amongst the people as well as the spirits that followed them wherever they went
What is music?
300
The reason why Lymon does not want to return south
What is he is fleeing the law?
400
The object Berniece brings out when Boy Willie is about to take the piano which belongs to this man
What is Crawley and his gun?
400
This is what the character's in all of Wilson's plays are in search of
What is themselves, their identities, and/or their sense of belonging in the world?
400
A practice of providing land to former slaves during Reconstruction, coming from General William Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15
What is 40 acres and a mule?
400
The ways in which the Charles family wants to or has left a mark in history
What is Boy Willie wanting to buy Sutter's land, Charles Boy stealing the piano, and/or Willie Boy carving the piano?
400
Given to Berniece by Lymon one late night
What is a bottle of perfume?
500
This character represents oppression in the play.
Who is Sutter?
500
Wilson began writing plays after receiving this fellowship in Minneapolis-St. Paul
What is a fellowship writing plays at a black theater?
500
To escape racism and to find new jobs were motivations of this 1910-1930 movement
What is the Great Migration?
500
The main difference between Berniece and Boy Willie's relationship with their family's past
What is Boy Willie is proud and wants to secure his future legacy while Berniece is afraid to deal with the past and its spirits?
500
The murderer of Boy Charles, the father of Berniece and Boy Willie