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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many characters run onto the stage at the beginning of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?
(a) Three.
(b) Seven.
(c) Nine.
(d) Five.

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

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

5. Who is the first person to speak in the play?
(a) The lady in red.
(b) The lady in brown.
(c) The lady in green.
(d) The lady in orange.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Poem One, what type of colored girls does the narrator say this play is for?

2. Based on Poem One, what is this play about?

3. Which one of these folk songs does the cast of the play sing in Poem One?

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"?

5. What does the narrator mean when she says, "dark phrases of womanhood/ of never havin been a girl/ half-notes scattered/ without rhythm" in Poem One?

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