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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What images are contrasted in Poem Six?
(a) Images of young men and images of old men.
(b) Images of battered women and images of women who have not been battered.
(c) Images of a courtly gentleman and images of the same men holding fists.
(d) Images of Black men and images of White men.

2. In Poem Two, what happened to the poem's main character the day after the party?
(a) She was in a car accident.
(b) She could not find her glasses.
(c) She could not stop smiling.
(d) She had a bad headache.

3. What ties Poems Two, Three, Four, and Five in Sequence One together?
(a) The image of sorrow.
(b) The image of dancing.
(c) The image of laughter.
(d) The image of singing.

4. Where is the lady in green from?
(a) Outside Houston.
(b) Outside Baltimore.
(c) Outside San Francisco.
(d) Outside St. Louis.

5. In Poem One, which character(s) say(s), "mama's little baby likes shortnin bread"?
(a) The lady in orange.
(b) Everyone.
(c) The lady in purple.
(d) The lady in yellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only way that the lady in orange says she can communicate at the beginning of Poem Five?

2. Who is with the main character in Poem Seven as she is relaying what is happening to her?

3. Where is the lady in red from?

4. Who is the last character to speak in Poem One?

5. Which character(s) run off at the end of Poem Six?

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