WorksheetsAugust Wilson
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
The piano was originally given as a gift to
Joel Nolander's wife
Cleotha
Berniece and Boy Willie's great grandmother
Miss Ophelia Sutter
The carvings on the piano were done by
Boy Willie and Berniece's great grandfather
Mama Berniece
Mr. Nolander
Mama Ola
They talk to you where the Yellow Dog crosses the Southern
Doaker and Wining Boy
Mr. Nolander and Mr. Sutter
The Ghosts of the Yellow Dog
The Charles family's ancestors
The person who gave his life for the piano
Boy Charles
Mama Ola
Wining boy
Ed Saunders
The piano was stolen from Sutter on
Christmas Eve
Labor Day
Fourth of July
Thanksgiving Day
Polished the piano "with her tears for seventeen years"
Berniece
Mama Ola
Esther
Coreen
Said "If I see Sutter's ghost I'll be on the first thing I find that got wheels on it."
Boy Willie
Doaker
Wining Boy
Avery
Said "She need to go out here and let one of these fellows grab a whole handful of whatever she got. She act like it done got precious.
Boy Willie
Doaker
Wining Boy
Avery
Said "I used to thank the Lord. Many a night I sat and looked out over my life. Said, well, I had Cleotha."
Boy Willie
Doaker
Lymon
Wining Boy
Said "I went down there and right there where them two railroads cross each other ... I stood right there on that spot and called out their names. They talk back to you too."
Wining Boy
Doaker
Lymon
Avery
Sang "I am a rambling gambling man."
Boy Willie
Doaker
Wining boy
Lymon
Said "You killed Crawley just as sure as if you pulled the trigger."
Boy Willie
Doaker
Berniece
Avery
The carvings were originally made on the piano because ...
Mr. Sutter wanted a record of the slaves he sold.
Miss Ophelia missed her slaves.
Paper was not available on the Sutter plantation
Doaker's grandfather felt it important to capture family history.
Made the original carvings on the piano.
Boy Charles
Mama Ola's people
Sutter
Willie Boy
