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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Based on Poem One, what is a major theme of the play?
(a) Freedom through story-telling.
(b) An individual's relations to the gods.
(c) Time.
(d) Death.

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

3. 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?
(a) She takes life seriously.
(b) Her life is scattered with no direction.
(c) Her life is on track and very focused.
(d) Her life is perfect.

4. Where is the lady in orange from?
(a) Outside St. Louis.
(b) Outside Houston.
(c) Outside Baltimore.
(d) Outside Chicago.

5. In Poem One, which character(s) say(s), "mama's little baby likes shortnin bread"?
(a) The lady in yellow.
(b) Everyone.
(c) The lady in orange.
(d) The lady in purple.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the lady in purple from?

3. What is the setting of this work?

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

5. Where is the lady in green from?

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