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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the main character in Poem Four read to the audience?
(a) Her favorite poem about love.
(b) A letter she left for her lover.
(c) A note that her mother left her.
(d) An entry from her diary.

2. What event is Poem Two about?
(a) New Year's Eve.
(b) Baptism.
(c) Graduation night.
(d) College acceptance.

3. What does the main character in Poem Four decide to do as a result of her relationship?
(a) She decides to leave.
(b) She decides to move in with her mother.
(c) She decides to stay.
(d) She decides to get a divorce.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the lady in brown from?

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

3. In Poem One, which character(s) say(s), "an put your hands on your hips/ an let your backbone slip"?

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

5. What does each character do before anyone starts to speak?

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