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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the main character in Poem Ten allow men to do?
(a) She allows them to hit her.
(b) She allows them to spend her money
(c) She gives them no allowances.
(d) She allows them to spend the night.

2. In Poem Six, which character says,"these men friends of ours/ who smile nice/ stay employed/ and take us out to dinner"?
(a) The lady in red.
(b) The lady in brown.
(c) The lady in green.
(d) The lady in purple.

3. What happened when one of the characters sat up one night walking a boarding house in the finale?
(a) She thought about her love all night.
(b) She found herself.
(c) She couldn't remember why she was there.
(d) She fell into a numbness.

4. What line does the lady in red say that the other characters repeat in the finale?
(a) "I found god in myself & I loved her."
(b) "Not a man."
(c) "A layin on of hands."
(d) "I waz missin somethin."

5. In Poem One, which character says, "dark phrases of womanhood/of never havin been a girl"?
(a) The lady in green.
(b) The lady in red.
(c) The lady in brown.
(d) The lady in orange.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what happens when Beau learns that the main character is pregnant again in Poem Nineteen?

2. Who does the lady in brown call to at the beginning of Poem One?

3. What does Poem Thirteen's narrator say she tried to bring into people's lives?

4. What game do the characters play at the end of the play?

5. How does the character in Poem Seven feel physically in her situation?

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