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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator in Poem Fifteen suggest that black women should act like?
(a) White men.
(b) White women.
(c) Black men.
(d) Hispanic women.

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

3. What does the main character do to keep her Beau away in Poem Nineteen?
(a) She steals his car.
(b) She gets a court order.
(c) She changes her phone number.
(d) She moves.

4. What does the lady in orange do at the end of Poem Four?
(a) She recaps what happened earlier in the poem.
(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 talks to the audience about love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was the marathon that the main character in Poem Three was attending?

2. Where is the lady in brown from?

3. 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"?

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

5. What does the narrator in Poem Sixteen feel she should not be dependent on?

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