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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is the lady in red from?
(a) Outside San Francisco.
(b) Outside St. Louis.
(c) Outside Baltimore.
(d) Outside Chicago.

3. 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"?
(a) The lady in blue.
(b) The lady in brown.
(c) The lady in yellow.
(d) The lady in purple.

4. What topic is mentioned in Poem Two that leads the reader into the next poem?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Violence.
(d) Latin dances.

5. In Poem Three, what happened as a result of the main character's favorite musician not playing?
(a) She stopped listening to worldly music.
(b) She learned to play an instrument.
(c) She discovered different kinds of music.
(d) She never listened to that artist again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the main character in Poem Four read to the audience?

2. What do all of the characters in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf have in common?

3. In Poem Two, what happened to the poem's main character the day after the party?

4. 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?

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

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