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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 abandoned their rainbow.
(c) Those who have moved to the ends of their own rainbow.
(d) Those who have found refuge in a new rainbow.

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

4. What similarities exist between the cities that each character says that they are from?
(a) They are all on the east coast of the United States.
(b) They are all in a depression.
(c) They are all state capitols.
(d) They are all urban cities in America.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the lady in red from?

2. 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?

3. What game do the characters play at the end of the play?

4. Where is the lady in purple from?

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

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