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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sequence Five.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the main character in Poem Nineteen?
(a) Shelley.
(b) Tammi.
(c) Crystal.
(d) Shannon.

2. What does the main character in Poem Four make a list of?
(a) Places she would like to live.
(b) The things she looks for in a man.
(c) The ways she loved her man.
(d) Some of the goals she has in life.

3. What do the remainder of the characters say in Poem Five keeps them from crying and dying?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Writing.
(c) Reading.
(d) Singing.

4. Who does the main character in Poem Nine meet at the docks?
(a) Toussaint Jones.
(b) Toussaint L'Ouverture.
(c) James Baldwin.
(d) Ramsey Armstrong.

5. How many kids do the main character and Beau have in Poem Nineteen?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of event does the character in the play describe at the start of Poem Eight?

2. At the end of Poem Eighteen, what suggestion does the narrator make to the person with whom she is speaking with?

3. Which character relays the main narrative in Poem Four?

4. What is the narrator referring to when she references her "stuff"?

5. In Sequence One, which character says, "forty poems 2 plants &3 handmade notecards i left/ town so i cd send to you have been no help to me/ on my job"?

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