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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which one of these folk songs does the cast of the play sing in Poem One?
(a) "Jimmy James."
(b) "Shortnin' Bread."
(c) "Ham Bone."
(d) "Miss Mary Mack."

2. What game do the characters play at the end of the play?
(a) Uno.
(b) Connect Four.
(c) Tag.
(d) Twister.

3. Which character relays the main narrative in Poem Three?
(a) The lady in purple.
(b) The lady in green.
(c) The lady in blue.
(d) The lady in yellow.

4. In Poem Two, how does the poem's main character feel after she and her friends had a lot to drink, danced, and got sexy?
(a) "Finallly grown."
(b) "Wonderfully free."
(c) "Silly."
(d) "Totally immature."

5. Who is the last character to speak in Poem One?
(a) The lady in brown.
(b) The lady in purple.
(c) The lady in red.
(d) The lady in green.

6. In Poem Seven, which character says,"tubes tables white washed windows/ grime from age wiped over once"?
(a) The lady in brown.
(b) The lady in yellow.
(c) The lady in blue.
(d) The lady in orange.

7. What is the title of Poem One?
(a) No assistance.
(b) One.
(c) Pyramid.
(d) Dark phrases.

8. In Poem Three, how old was the main character when she ran off?
(a) 14 years old.
(b) 13 years old.
(c) 16 years old.
(d) 15 years old.

9. What does Poem Six say has changed about the social circles in which women seek companionship?
(a) Women can now meet rapists.
(b) Women can now get in for free.
(c) Women can now meet more courtly gentlemen.
(d) Women can now meet other women.

10. What is the story in Poem Seven about?
(a) Abortion.
(b) Rape.
(c) Death.
(d) Marriage.

11. In Sequence One, which character says, "forty poems 2 plants &3 handmade notecards i left/ town so i cd send to you have been no help to me/ on my job"?
(a) The lady blue.
(b) The lady in green.
(c) The lady in yellow.
(d) The ladty in red.

12. Where is the lady in yellow from?
(a) Outside Detroit.
(b) Outside San Francisco.
(c) Outside Chicago.
(d) Outside Houston.

13. How does the main character in Poem Four refer to her relationship with her former boyfriend?
(a) "A crash course in love."
(b) "An experiment."
(c) "A test."
(d) "A last chance."

14. Based on Poem One, what is a major theme of the play?
(a) Freedom through story-telling.
(b) Death.
(c) An individual's relations to the gods.
(d) Time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem One, which character(s) say(s), "mama's little baby likes shortnin bread"?

2. What did the main character in Poem Four discover as a result of her relationship?

3. In Sequence One, which character says, "we rambled from camden to mount holly/ laughin our tassles from the rear view mirror/ climbin different sorta project stairs"?

4. How long was the marathon that the main character in Poem Three was attending?

5. What is the last line of Poem Seven?

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