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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the main character in Poem Ten allow men to do?
(a) She allows them to spend her money
(b) She gives them no allowances.
(c) She allows them to spend the night.
(d) She allows them to hit her.

2. How do the women act towards each other at the end of the Poem Twelve?
(a) Like they were sisters.
(b) Like they were enemies.
(c) Like they were cousins.
(d) Like they were friends.

3. Who narrates the story in Poem Twelve?
(a) The lady in purple.
(b) The lady in blue.
(c) The lady in red.
(d) The lady in green.

4. Which character tells the story in Poem Eight?
(a) The lady in brown.
(b) The lady in green.
(c) The lady in yellow.
(d) The lady in orange.

5. What does the narrator say to begin Poem Sixteen?
(a) That she cannot fantasize.
(b) That she has lost touch with reality.
(c) That she does not love men anymore.
(d) That she cannot love anymore.

6. Where did the main character Beau return from psychologically damaged in Poem Nineteen?
(a) Eqypt.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) China.

7. What is the narrator referring to when she references her "stuff"?
(a) Her clothes.
(b) Her television.
(c) Her soul.
(d) Her car.

8. How big does the narrator say her universe is in Poem Eleven?
(a) Two blocks.
(b) An infinite amount of blocks.
(c) Six blocks.
(d) Twelve blocks.

9. What did the narrator of Poem Thirteen feel was redundant?
(a) Being sensitive and being nice.
(b) Being smart and being a woman.
(c) Feeling sorrow and being black.
(d) Being a woman and being black.

10. What is Beau's full name in Poem Nineteen?
(a) Willie Brown.
(b) Jerome Smalls.
(c) James Johnson.
(d) Brandon Best.

11. How are the poems in Sequence Four different from earlier poems in the play?
(a) They are shorter.
(b) They are longer.
(c) They give a White woman's perspective on life.
(d) They use colloquial language.

12. What happens when Beau keeps trying to get funding to pay for school in Poem Nineteen?
(a) He does not register for classes.
(b) He gets placed in remedial classes.
(c) He enrolls in advanced classes.
(d) He cannot get any money.

13. What feels strange to the narrator of Poem Thirteen?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Crying.
(d) Screaming.

14. What is the title of Poem Seventeen?
(a) No More Love Poems.
(b) Somebody Almost Walked Off Wid Alla My Stuff.
(c) A Laying on of Hands.
(d) Sorry.

15. What does Beau threaten to do if the main character does not marry him in Poem Nineteen?
(a) To kill himself.
(b) To throw the children down the steps.
(c) To drop the children out the window.
(d) To move back in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Poem Fourteen about?

2. What does Poem Thirteen's narrator say she tried to bring into people's lives?

3. Who does the main character in Poem Nine discover when she starts reading books from the adult section of the library?

4. In Poem Fourteen, what does the narrator say she lacks in order to look for love?

5. According to Poem Ten, at what time do women from Louisiana shell peas?

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