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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event is Poem Two about?
(a) College acceptance.
(b) Graduation night.
(c) New Year's Eve.
(d) Baptism.

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

3. Early in Poem Three, what is the main character's favorite type of music?
(a) Latin music.
(b) Rock & Roll.
(c) Blues.
(d) Rhythem and Blues.

4. Which character(s) run off the stage after the start of Poem Seven?
(a) The lady in purple.
(b) The lady in green.
(c) The ladies in blue and purple.
(d) The ladies in red and green.

5. What does the main character in Poem Three identify as her race/heritage?
(a) Mostly White with hints of Spanish.
(b) Mostly African American with hints of White.
(c) Mostly African American wih hints of Spanish.
(d) Mostly Spanish with hints of African American.

6. Who is the artist that sings the song at the start of Poem Six?
(a) The Dells.
(b) Willie Colon.
(c) Carlos Santana.
(d) Martha and the Vandellas.

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

8. What does the lady in orange do at the end of Poem Four?
(a) She reads her own letter to a man that she can't talk to anymore.
(b) She talks to the audience about love.
(c) She convinces the main character to leave her man.
(d) She recaps what happened earlier in the poem.

9. Who is the first person to speak in the play?
(a) The lady in green.
(b) The lady in orange.
(c) The lady in brown.
(d) The lady in red.

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

11. What do the characters ironically suggest in Poem Six?
(a) A pregnant teen has no morals.
(b) A battered woman is a weak woman.
(c) A women raped by someone she knows, asks for it.
(d) A failed marriage is always the woman's fault.

12. In Poem Six, which character says, "pin-ups attached to the insides of his lapels"?
(a) The lady in purple.
(b) The lady in orange.
(c) The lady in green.
(d) The lady in brown.

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

14. In Poem One, which character(s) say(s), "mama's little baby likes shortnin bread"?
(a) Everyone.
(b) The lady in yellow.
(c) The lady in orange.
(d) The lady in purple.

15. When the other character's speak in Poem Two, what do they comment on?
(a) Their memories of baptism.
(b) Their sexual experiences.
(c) The fun they had in high school.
(d) Their favorite New Year's Eve.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character relays the main narrative in Poem Two?

2. In Poem Two, where does the poem's main character go with the guy she met at the party?

3. What song plays at the start of Poem Six?

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

5. What type of literary work is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?

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