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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What event is Poem Two about?
(a) College acceptance.
(b) Graduation night.
(c) New Year's Eve.
(d) Baptism.

3. Where is the lady in yellow from?
(a) Outside San Francisco.
(b) Outside Chicago.
(c) Outside Detroit.
(d) Outside Houston.

4. What does each character do before anyone starts to speak?
(a) Runs on stage and falls on the floor.
(b) Sings a popular song.
(c) Dances to a popular song.
(d) Runs on stage and freezes in a position of distress.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem One, which character says, "and this is for colored girls who have considered suicide/but moved to the end of their own rainbows"?

2. Where is the lady in green from?

3. Where is the lady in orange from?

4. What game do the characters play at the end of the play?

5. What do the remainder of the characters say in Poem Five keeps them from crying and dying?

(see the answer key)

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