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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What song plays at the start of Poem Six?
(a) "Drive Me Crazy."
(b) "Shake Me Down."
(c) "Cha Cha Cha."
(d) "Che Che Cole."

2. In Sequence One, which character says, "we rambled from camden to mount holly/ laughin our tassles from the rear view mirror/ climbin different sorta project stairs"?
(a) The lady in red.
(b) The lady in blue.
(c) The lady in green.
(d) The lady in yellow.

3. What are the stage directions for all of the characters on stage at the end Poem Six?
(a) The characters are all hit by an imaginary slap.
(b) The characters run to one side of the stage.
(c) The characters dance to the music.
(d) The characters fall to the floor.

4. Which character(s) run off at the end of Poem Six?
(a) The lady in red.
(b) The lady in orange.
(c) The ladies in purple and orange.
(d) The ladies in green and red.

5. How many characters run off stage after the lights change at the end of Poem Five?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of literary work is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?

2. Where is the lady in green from?

3. In Sequence One, which character says, "sneakin in under age to slug's/ to stare ata real 'artiste'/ & every word outta imamu's mouth waz gospel"?

4. Where is the lady in brown from?

5. What does the narrator mean when she says, "dark phrases of womanhood/ of never havin been a girl/ half-notes scattered/ without rhythm" in Poem One?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the language change at the end of Poem Nineteen? At what point at the end of the play does the language change?

2. Describe Poem Two.

3. According to the stage directions, how does Sequence Four end?

4. How does the lady in yellow begin Poem Sixteen? What feelings does she convey in the poem?

5. Describe the poetic imagery in Poem Six.

6. Why do the women describe themselves as living outside of the cities in Poem One?

7. Describe the language and imagery in Poem Thirteen.

8. What happened to the main character's "stuff" in Poem Seventeen?

9. What reason do the characters give for dancing?

10. How do the women move to the ends of their rainbow?

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