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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the remainder of the characters say in Poem Five keeps them from crying and dying?
(a) Reading.
(b) Singing.
(c) Writing.
(d) Dancing.

2. Which character says, "are we ghouls?/ children of horror?/ the joke?"
(a) The lady in red.
(b) The lady in orange.
(c) The lady in green.
(d) The lady in brown.

3. What song plays at the start of Poem Six?
(a) "Shake Me Down."
(b) "Che Che Cole."
(c) "Cha Cha Cha."
(d) "Drive Me Crazy."

4. Who does the main character In Poem Three run off to see?
(a) Carlos Santana.
(b) Tito Puente.
(c) Celia Cruz.
(d) Willie Colon.

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

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

7. Which character(s) run off at the end of Poem Six?
(a) The lady in orange.
(b) The lady in red.
(c) The ladies in green and red.
(d) The ladies in purple and orange.

8. What type of literary work is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?
(a) A play.
(b) A nonfiction novel.
(c) A fictional novel.
(d) A choreopoem.

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

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

11. How did the main character in Poem Three react when she found out that her favorite musician was not going to be playing?
(a) She demanded to get her money back.
(b) She lost her temper.
(c) She tore up the musician's albums.
(d) She started to cry.

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

13. Where is the lady in orange from?
(a) Outside Chicago.
(b) Outside Baltimore.
(c) Outside St. Louis.
(d) Outside Houston.

14. In Poem Two, where does the poem's main character go with the guy she met at the party?
(a) To his house down the street.
(b) To a swing on the back porch.
(c) To a friend's house down the street.
(d) To his Buick in the parking lot.

15. What is the setting of this work?
(a) Africa.
(b) America.
(c) Europe.
(d) Asia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem Three, how old was the main character when she ran off?

2. What is the second word spoken in Poem Seven?

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

4. In Poem Two, what happened to the poem's main character the day after the party?

5. What does the narrator mean when she says, "dark phrases of womanhood/ of never havin been a girl/ half-notes scattered/ without rhythm" in Poem One?

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