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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the character in Poem Seven feel mentally about her situation?
(a) She feels shameful.
(b) She feel anxious.
(c) She feels sad.
(d) She feels happy.

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

3. What is the purpose of Poem One?
(a) It is a preface to the story.
(b) It is an innvocation.
(c) It is a song about the main characters.
(d) It is the introduction to a character's life.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of event does the character in the play describe at the start of Poem Eight?

2. How does the narrator in Poem Fifteen describe the group that she thinks black women should become like?

3. What does the rainbow symbolize?

4. Who narrates the story in Poem Ten?

5. Who is the artist that sings the song at the start of Poem Six?

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