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

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 women.
(c) They are all from the suburbs.
(d) They are all in their 20s.

2. Which character says, "are we ghouls?/ children of horror?/ the joke?"
(a) The lady in brown.
(b) The lady in orange.
(c) The lady in red.
(d) The lady in green.

3. What does the lady in orange do at the end of Poem Four?
(a) She convinces the main character to leave her man.
(b) She recaps what happened earlier in the poem.
(c) She reads her own letter to a man that she can't talk to anymore.
(d) She talks to the audience about love.

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

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

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. What does Poem Six say has changed about the social circles in which women seek companionship?

3. What is the purpose of Poem One?

4. What is the story in Poem Seven about?

5. What did the main character in Poem Four discover as a result of her relationship?

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