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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Beau's daughter in Poem Nineteen?
(a) Naomi.
(b) Nisha.
(c) Nona.
(d) Nadia.

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

3. What is Poem Fourteen about?
(a) The narrator's need to be loved by a man.
(b) The narrator's need for a new man.
(c) The narrator's love of friendship.
(d) The narrator's irritation with men.

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

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

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

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

8. What is the title of Poem Nineteen?
(a) Sorry.
(b) No More Love Poems.
(c) A Laying on of Hands.
(d) A Nite with Beau Wille Brown.

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

10. What does the main character do to keep her Beau away in Poem Nineteen?
(a) She moves.
(b) She gets a court order.
(c) She changes her phone number.
(d) She steals his car.

11. Who is the main character of the story in Poem Eight?
(a) Shereeda.
(b) Sechita.
(c) Sanita.
(d) Shelia.

12. What types of event does the character in the play describe at the start of Poem Eight?
(a) Mardi Gras Parades.
(b) Quadroon balls.
(c) Weddings.
(d) Street Fairs.

13. Which character narrates Poem Fourteen?
(a) The lady in blue.
(b) The lady in purple.
(c) The lady in orange.
(d) The lady in green.

14. Who does the main character in Poem Nine discover when she starts reading books from the adult section of the library?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Toussaint L'Ouverture.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Geroge Washington Carver.

15. How are the ladies in blue, yellow, purple, and orange dancing at the start of Sequence Four?
(a) Like they are drowning in water.
(b) Like they are catching a disease.
(c) Like they are flying in the sky.
(d) Like they are chocking.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what happens when Beau learns that the main character is pregnant again in Poem Nineteen?

2. In Poem Nineteen, which character narrates the story?

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

4. In Poem Eleven, how does the narrator describe her current universe at the end of the poem?

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

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