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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When the other character's speak in Poem Two, what do they comment on?
(a) The fun they had in high school.
(b) Their sexual experiences.
(c) Their memories of baptism.
(d) Their favorite New Year's Eve.

3. What does the main character in Poem Four make a list of?
(a) The things she looks for in a man.
(b) Some of the goals she has in life.
(c) Places she would like to live.
(d) The ways she loved her man.

4. Which character relays the main narrative in Poem Three?
(a) The lady in blue.
(b) The lady in purple.
(c) The lady in yellow.
(d) The lady in green.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the lady in green from?

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

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

4. What is the race of the characters in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?

5. How many characters run onto the stage at the beginning of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?

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