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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Poem Fourteen, what does the narrator say she lacks in order to look for love?
(a) Financial resources.
(b) Good looks.
(c) Courage.
(d) Love.

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

4. What happens when the main character arrives to the docks at the end of Poem Nine?
(a) She rents a boat and sailed off.
(b) She runs into some of her friends.
(c) She meets a man named Toussaint.
(d) She reads one of her library books.

5. What does the narrator in Poem Seventeen want the person to do with her "stuff"?
(a) Burn it.
(b) Give it to somepne else.
(c) Throw it away.
(d) Return it.

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

7. What themes are the poems in Sequence Four built around?
(a) Fear and Power.
(b) Pain and misery.
(c) Long lost love.
(d) Love and relationships.

8. How does the narrator end Poem Fourteen?
(a) With a letter to her future husband.
(b) With another prayer for someone to love her as she is.
(c) With a plea to married women.
(d) With a warning to single women.

9. 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 cannot love anymore.
(d) That she does not love men anymore.

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

11. What is the title of Poem Eighteen?
(a) Sorry.
(b) Pyramid.
(c) A Nite with Beau Wille Brown.
(d) A Laying on of Hands.

12. In Poem Nine, why was the main character disqualified from a contest that she entered to see which child could read the most books?
(a) Because she was African American.
(b) Because she did not complete the registration form correctly.
(c) Because she did not read enough books.
(d) Because she was reading adult books.

13. What character gives the narrative in Poem Eighteen?
(a) The lady in purple.
(b) The lady in blue.
(c) The lady in green.
(d) The lady in orange.

14. At the end of Poem Eighteen, what suggestion does the narrator make to the person with whom she is speaking with?
(a) Admit shortcomings up front.
(b) Stop cheating with women that she knows.
(c) Never say "I'm sorry."
(d) Be careful who you fall in love with.

15. What city is the main character in Poem Eight from?
(a) Miami.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Little Rock.
(d) New Orleans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character narrates Poem Eleven?

2. What does the narrator in Poem Fifteen think black woman deal with too much?

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

4. What dilemmas does the narrator in Poem Sixteen believe she is caught up in?

5. What is the title of Poem Seventeen?

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