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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the lady in green from?
(a) Outside St. Louis.
(b) Outside Houston.
(c) Outside San Francisco.
(d) Outside Baltimore.

2. How does the character in Poem Seven feel physically in her situation?
(a) She feels tired.
(b) She feels numb.
(c) She feels pain.
(d) She feels relaxed.

3. Who takes the "stuff" in Poem Seventeen?
(a) A friend of the family.
(b) A stranger,
(c) The narrator's son.
(d) The narrator's lover.

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

5. What type of literary work is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?
(a) A play.
(b) A fictional novel.
(c) A nonfiction novel.
(d) A choreopoem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the main character in Poem Four make a list of?

2. What similarities exist between the cities that each character says that they are from?

3. 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?

4. How big does the narrator say her universe is in Poem Eleven?

5. In Poem Six, which characters narrate the poem?

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