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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 Chicago.
(c) Outside Detroit.
(d) Outside Houston.

2. 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) Runs on stage and freezes in a position of distress.
(d) Dances to a popular song.

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

4. What is the race of the characters in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?
(a) White American.
(b) Asian American.
(c) African American.
(d) Hispanic.

5. At the end of Poem One, what type of colored girls does the narrator say this play is for?
(a) Those who have created their own rainbow.
(b) Those who have moved to the ends of their own rainbow.
(c) Those who have found refuge in a new rainbow.
(d) Those who have abandoned their rainbow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the lady in brown call to at the beginning of Poem One?

2. What type of literary work is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?

3. What is the title of Poem One?

4. Which character says, "are we ghouls?/ children of horror?/ the joke?"

5. 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"?

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