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the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What fills Boy Willie and Lymon’s truck?
Watermelons
Manure
Coal
Immigrants
Q. What does Boy Willie want to buy?
A book about the history of slavery
A slave
The land on which his family was once enslaved
A Kindle
Q. What does Berniece, Boy Willie’s sister, not want to sell?
Their piano
Her rookie Ron Paul “Libertarians of Tomorrow” card
Their home
Her gold necklace
Q. What is carved into the piano?
Doaker’s grandparents’ initals
The year the family was finally free
A bas-relief of the Battle of Antietam
The family history
Q. How did Berniece and Boy Willie’s father die?
He was hanged
He was set on fire
He was stabbed
The piano landed on his head