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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Based on Poem One, what is this play about?
(a) It is about African American women finding their voice.
(b) It is about abused women in America.
(c) It is about finding love.
(d) It is about single women and their pursuits.

2. What does the main character in Poem Four read to the audience?
(a) A letter she left for her lover.
(b) Her favorite poem about love.
(c) A note that her mother left her.
(d) An entry from her diary.

3. What dilemmas does the narrator in Poem Sixteen believe she is caught up in?
(a) The dilemmas of being a single, white woman.
(b) The dilemmas of being smart, rich, and black.
(c) The dilemmas of being emotional, black woman.
(d) The dilemmas of being a woman, alive, and black.

4. In Poem Sixteen, what does the narrator want to do?
(a) Get over her broken heart.
(b) Find someone to love.
(c) Stop loving the man that she loves.
(d) Cherish her capacity to love.

5. What song plays at the beginning of Poem Two?
(a) "A,B,C, 1,2,3."
(b) "Dancing in the Streets."
(c) "Stop in the Name of Love."
(d) "What's Going On."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the lady in orange do at the end of Poem Four?

2. 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?

3. What is the purpose of Poem One?

4. Where does the narrator say she "usedta live" in Poem Eleven?

5. Where is the lady in green from?

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