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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the main character in Poem Four decide to do as a result of her relationship?
(a) She decides to get a divorce.
(b) She decides to leave.
(c) She decides to move in with her mother.
(d) She decides to stay.

2. What song plays at the beginning of Poem Two?
(a) "Dancing in the Streets."
(b) "What's Going On."
(c) "Stop in the Name of Love."
(d) "A,B,C, 1,2,3."

3. Who is the first person to speak in the play?
(a) The lady in orange.
(b) The lady in red.
(c) The lady in green.
(d) The lady in brown.

4. Where is the lady in purple from?
(a) Outside Baltimore.
(b) Outside Detroit.
(c) Outside Houston.
(d) Outside San Francisco.

5. What does the lady in orange do at the end of Poem Four?
(a) She reads her own letter to a man that she can't talk to anymore.
(b) She convinces the main character to leave her man.
(c) She talks to the audience about love.
(d) She recaps what happened earlier in the poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of this work?

2. In Poem Three, what happened as a result of the main character's favorite musician not playing?

3. 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"?

4. How many characters run onto the stage at the beginning of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the language used in Poem Nine.

2. What happened to the main character's "stuff" in Poem Seventeen?

3. How do the poems in Sequence Three differ from the other poems in the play?

4. Describe the language used in Poem One.

5. Why do the women describe themselves as living outside of the cities in Poem One?

6. What happened to Beau when he came back from the war? Why did Crystal have to get a court order against Beau?

7. Why do the characters end the play on a good note, despite the journey?

8. What links Poems Six and Seven together?

9. How do the women move to the ends of their rainbow?

10. What do the two songs at the end of Poem One represent?

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