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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what does she say someone did with her "stuff" in Poem Seventeen?
(a) Hid it.
(b) Stole it.
(c) Walked off with it.
(d) Threw it away.

2. What are the stage directions for all of the characters on stage at the end Poem Six?
(a) The characters dance to the music.
(b) The characters fall to the floor.
(c) The characters run to one side of the stage.
(d) The characters are all hit by an imaginary slap.

3. How are the poems in Sequence Four different from earlier poems in the play?
(a) They are shorter.
(b) They use colloquial language.
(c) They are longer.
(d) They give a White woman's perspective on life.

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 met a new man at the bar.
(c) She saw the woman that her man left her for.
(d) Her boyfriend broke up with her.

5. In Poem Three, what happened as a result of the main character's favorite musician not playing?
(a) She stopped listening to worldly music.
(b) She discovered different kinds of music.
(c) She never listened to that artist again.
(d) She learned to play an instrument.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the lady in purple from?

2. At the end of Poem One, what type of colored girls does the narrator say this play is for?

3. Which character(s) run off the stage after the start of Poem Seven?

4. In Poem One, which character says, "and this is for colored girls who have considered suicide/but moved to the end of their own rainbows"?

5. At the end of Poem Eighteen, what suggestion does the narrator make to the person with whom she is speaking with?

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