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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the last character to speak in Poem One?
(a) The lady in purple.
(b) The lady in red.
(c) The lady in brown.
(d) The lady in green.

2. What does the main character in Poem Three identify as her race/heritage?
(a) Mostly Spanish with hints of African American.
(b) Mostly White with hints of Spanish.
(c) Mostly African American wih hints of Spanish.
(d) Mostly African American with hints of White.

3. What does the lady in orange do at the end of Poem Four?
(a) She talks to the audience about love.
(b) She convinces the main character to leave her man.
(c) She reads her own letter to a man that she can't talk to anymore.
(d) She recaps what happened earlier in the poem.

4. What is the race of the characters in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?
(a) African American.
(b) Asian American.
(c) White American.
(d) Hispanic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Early in Poem Three, what is the main character's favorite type of music?

2. Where is the lady in orange from?

3. In Poem One, which character(s) say(s), "an put your hands on your hips/ an let your backbone slip"?

4. 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"?

5. When the other character's speak in Poem Two, what do they comment on?

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