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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the lady in red from?
(a) Outside San Francisco.
(b) Outside Chicago.
(c) Outside St. Louis.
(d) Outside Baltimore.

2. What is the title of Poem One?
(a) No assistance.
(b) Dark phrases.
(c) One.
(d) Pyramid.

3. How does the narrator in Poem Seven tell her story?
(a) She uses illiteration.
(b) She foreshadowing.
(c) She uses poetic imagry.
(d) She compares and contrasts situations.

4. What is the last line of Poem Seven?
(a) waznt no need for colored folks to bear no cross at all.
(b) once i waz pregnant & shamed of myself.
(c) & we are left with scars.
(d) i just cdnt stop grinnin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Poem Six say has changed about the social circles in which women seek companionship?

2. Who does the main character in Poem Nine discover when she starts reading books from the adult section of the library?

3. At the end of Poem One, what type of colored girls does the narrator say this play is for?

4. Which character narrates Poem Eleven?

5. What does each character do before anyone starts to speak?

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