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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. How does the character in Poem Seven feel physically in her situation?
(a) She feels relaxed.
(b) She feels numb.
(c) She feels tired.
(d) She feels pain.
2. What does the main character in Poem Four read to the audience?
(a) A letter she left for her lover.
(b) Her favorite poem about love.
(c) A note that her mother left her.
(d) An entry from her diary.
3. Which character(s) run off at the end of Poem Six?
(a) The lady in orange.
(b) The ladies in green and red.
(c) The lady in red.
(d) The ladies in purple and orange.
4. How does the character in Poem Seven feel mentally about her situation?
(a) She feel anxious.
(b) She feels happy.
(c) She feels sad.
(d) She feels shameful.
5. What is the purpose of Poem One?
(a) It is an innvocation.
(b) It is a preface to the story.
(c) It is the introduction to a character's life.
(d) It is a song about the main characters.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are the stage directions for all of the characters on stage at the end Poem Six?
2. What does the lady in orange do at the end of Poem Four?
3. What song plays at the start of Poem Six?
4. Where is the lady in red from?
5. How many characters run off stage after the lights change at the end of Poem Five?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Poem Nine.
2. Why does the playwright use music in the play?
3. What issue is discussed in the final poem?
4. How do the poems in Sequence Three differ from the other poems in the play?
5. What does the lady in brown mean in Poem One when she says, "dark phrases of womanhood/ of never havin been a girl/ half-notes scattered/ without rhythm/ no tune"?
6. What does Poem One represent? What is its significance?
7. Why do the women describe themselves as living outside of the cities in Poem One?
8. How does the final poem sum up the dramatic and thematic journey of the play?
9. Describe Poem Two.
10. Describe the language and imagery in Poem Thirteen.
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