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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do all of the characters in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf have in common?
(a) They are all White.
(b) They are all in their 20s.
(c) They are all from the suburbs.
(d) They are all women.

2. Early in Poem Three, what is the main character's favorite type of music?
(a) Rhythem and Blues.
(b) Rock & Roll.
(c) Blues.
(d) Latin music.

3. In Sequence One, which character says, "forty poems 2 plants &3 handmade notecards i left/ town so i cd send to you have been no help to me/ on my job"?
(a) The lady in yellow.
(b) The lady blue.
(c) The ladty in red.
(d) The lady in green.

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

5. 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 purple.
(b) The lady in yellow.
(c) The lady in blue.
(d) The lady in brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem One, which character(s) say(s), "mama's little baby likes shortnin bread"?

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

3. What is the title of Poem One?

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

5. In Poem Three, what happened as a result of the main character's favorite musician not playing?

(see the answer key)

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