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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who narrates the story in Poem Ten?
(a) The lady in red.
(b) The lady in blue.
(c) The lady in green.
(d) The lady in purple.

2. What is the setting of this work?
(a) Europe.
(b) Africa.
(c) America.
(d) Asia.

3. What themes are the poems in Sequence Four built around?
(a) Love and relationships.
(b) Long lost love.
(c) Pain and misery.
(d) Fear and Power.

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

5. Where is the lady in green from?
(a) Outside Baltimore.
(b) Outside St. Louis.
(c) Outside San Francisco.
(d) Outside Houston.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the character in Poem Seven feel mentally about her situation?

2. In Poem Sixteen, what does the narrator want to do?

3. How many characters run off stage after the lights change at the end of Poem Five?

4. Where is the lady in yellow from?

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

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