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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Poem Ten about?
(a) A crazy woman who kills her husband.
(b) A homeless woman who has to fend for her family.
(c) A provocative woman who attracts men.
(d) A short woman who longs to be tall.

2. Which character tells the story in Poem Eight?
(a) The lady in green.
(b) The lady in brown.
(c) The lady in orange.
(d) The lady in yellow.

3. In Poem Six, which characters narrate the poem?
(a) The ladies in orange, green, and blue.
(b) The ladies in purple, brown, and red.
(c) The ladies in blue, red, and purple.
(d) The ladies in yellow, red, and green.

4. How do the women act towards each other at the end of the Poem Twelve?
(a) Like they were sisters.
(b) Like they were cousins.
(c) Like they were enemies.
(d) Like they were friends.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator end Poem Fourteen?

2. In Poem Fourteen, how does the narrator describe pleasuring herself through thought?

3. What does the main character in Poem Three identify as her race/heritage?

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

5. How does the narrator in Poem Fifteen describe the group that she thinks black women should become like?

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