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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which character relays the main narrative in Poem Two?
(a) The lady in green.
(b) The lady in purple.
(c) The lady in yellow.
(d) The lady in red.

3. In Poem Three, what happened as a result of the main character's favorite musician not playing?
(a) She stopped listening to worldly music.
(b) She discovered different kinds of music.
(c) She never listened to that artist again.
(d) She learned to play an instrument.

4. 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"?
(a) The lady in purple.
(b) The lady in brown.
(c) The lady in yellow.
(d) The lady in blue.

5. Who does the lady in brown call to at the beginning of Poem One?
(a) The lady in purple.
(b) The lady in green.
(c) The lady in red.
(d) The lady in blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the lady in purple from?

2. How does the main character in Poem Four refer to her relationship with her former boyfriend?

3. What event is Poem Two about?

4. In Poem One, which character says, "dark phrases of womanhood/of never havin been a girl"?

5. What ties Poems Two, Three, Four, and Five in Sequence One together?

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