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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does each character do before anyone starts to speak?
(a) Sings a popular song.
(b) Runs on stage and falls on the floor.
(c) Runs on stage and freezes in a position of distress.
(d) Dances to a popular song.

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

3. What did the main character in Poem Four discover as a result of her relationship?
(a) She can't stand not being wanted.
(b) She can't stand Black men.
(c) She can't stand not being married.
(d) She can't stand living alone.

4. In Poem Two, where does the poem's main character go with the guy she met at the party?
(a) To his house down the street.
(b) To a friend's house down the street.
(c) To his Buick in the parking lot.
(d) To a swing on the back porch.

5. In Poem Six, which character says, "pin-ups attached to the insides of his lapels"?
(a) The lady in purple.
(b) The lady in orange.
(c) The lady in brown.
(d) The lady in green.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. At the end of Poem Seven, how does the main character feel?

3. Where is the lady in orange from?

4. What ties Poems Two, Three, Four, and Five in Sequence One together?

5. Where is the lady in green from?

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