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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city is the main character in Poem Eight from?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Little Rock.
(d) Miami.

2. What types of event does the character in the play describe at the start of Poem Eight?
(a) Mardi Gras Parades.
(b) Street Fairs.
(c) Weddings.
(d) Quadroon balls.

3. In Poem Seven, which character says,"tubes tables white washed windows/ grime from age wiped over once"?
(a) The lady in brown.
(b) The lady in yellow.
(c) The lady in blue.
(d) The lady in orange.

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

5. What do the characters ironically suggest in Poem Six?
(a) A battered woman is a weak woman.
(b) A failed marriage is always the woman's fault.
(c) A women raped by someone she knows, asks for it.
(d) A pregnant teen has no morals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character in the play tells the story in Poem Eight?

2. Who takes the "stuff" in Poem Seventeen?

3. What words are the focus in Poem Eighteen?

4. What does the narrator in Poem Seventeen want the person to do with her "stuff"?

5. In what section of the library does the main character of Poem Nine find the books Cajun Katie and Christopher Robin?

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