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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feels strange to the narrator of Poem Thirteen?
(a) Crying.
(b) Screaming.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Laughing.

2. How does the narrator end Poem Fourteen?
(a) With a warning to single women.
(b) With another prayer for someone to love her as she is.
(c) With a letter to her future husband.
(d) With a plea to married women.

3. What does Poem Six say has changed about the social circles in which women seek companionship?
(a) Women can now meet other women.
(b) Women can now get in for free.
(c) Women can now meet more courtly gentlemen.
(d) Women can now meet rapists.

4. What event occurred that made the narrator of Poem Thirteen change the way that she danced?
(a) She found out her man was cheating on her.
(b) She saw the woman that her man left her for.
(c) Her boyfriend broke up with her.
(d) She met a new man at the bar.

5. Where does the narrator say she moved to in Poem Eleven?
(a) Queens.
(b) The world.
(c) Harlem.
(d) Egypt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Poem One?

2. In Poem Two, how does the poem's main character feel after she and her friends had a lot to drink, danced, and got sexy?

3. What does the main character in Poem Ten allow men to do?

4. Which character narrates Poem Eleven?

5. What does the narrator mean when she says, "dark phrases of womanhood/ of never havin been a girl/ half-notes scattered/ without rhythm" in Poem One?

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