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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the character in Poem Seven say she could not have see her in her current situation?
(a) Her friends.
(b) Her co-workers.
(c) Her classmates.
(d) Her family.

2. Who is with the main character in Poem Seven as she is relaying what is happening to her?
(a) Her family.
(b) No one.
(c) Her dog.
(d) Her friends,

3. What did the main character in Poem Four discover as a result of her relationship?
(a) She can't stand not being married.
(b) She can't stand living alone.
(c) She can't stand not being wanted.
(d) She can't stand Black men.

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) "Totally immature."
(b) "Wonderfully free."
(c) "Finallly grown."
(d) "Silly."

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

6. Who does the lady in brown call to at the beginning of Poem One?
(a) The lady in red.
(b) The lady in green.
(c) The lady in blue.
(d) The lady in purple.

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

8. Which one of these folk songs does the cast of the play sing in Poem One?
(a) "Shake It Shimmy."
(b) "Rollercoaster Ride."
(c) "Little Sally Walker."
(d) "Riding Down the River."

9. What is the second word spoken in Poem Seven?
(a) Mice.
(b) Grapes.
(c) Children.
(d) Nobody.

10. How long was the marathon that the main character in Poem Three was attending?
(a) 24 hours.
(b) 36 hours.
(c) 12 hours.
(d) 48 hours.

11. In Sequence One, which character says, "sneakin in under age to slug's/ to stare ata real 'artiste'/ & every word outta imamu's mouth waz gospel"?
(a) The lady in yellow.
(b) The lady in green.
(c) The lady in red.
(d) The lady in blue.

12. Where is the lady in red from?
(a) Outside St. Louis.
(b) Outside San Francisco.
(c) Outside Chicago.
(d) Outside Baltimore.

13. In Poem Two, what happened to the poem's main character the day after the party?
(a) She had a bad headache.
(b) She could not stop smiling.
(c) She was in a car accident.
(d) She could not find her glasses.

14. How does the narrator in Poem Seven tell her story?
(a) She uses illiteration.
(b) She compares and contrasts situations.
(c) She foreshadowing.
(d) She uses poetic imagry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the lady in brown from?

2. In Poem One, which character says, "and this is for colored girls who have considered suicide/but moved to the end of their own rainbows"?

3. What ties Poems Two, Three, Four, and Five in Sequence One together?

4. What does the main character in Poem Four read to the audience?

5. What is the first word spoken in Poem Seven?

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