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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 many characters run off stage after the lights change at the end of Poem Five?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

2. In Poem Three, what happened as a result of the main character's favorite musician not playing?
(a) She never listened to that artist again.
(b) She discovered different kinds of music.
(c) She learned to play an instrument.
(d) She stopped listening to worldly music.

3. What does each character do before anyone starts to speak?
(a) Sings a popular song.
(b) Dances to a popular song.
(c) Runs on stage and falls on the floor.
(d) Runs on stage and freezes in a position of distress.

4. Based on Poem One, what is a major theme of the play?
(a) Death.
(b) Time.
(c) Freedom through story-telling.
(d) An individual's relations to the gods.

5. What do all of the characters in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf have in common?
(a) They are all from the suburbs.
(b) They are all White.
(c) They are all in their 20s.
(d) They are all women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the stage directions for all of the characters on stage at the end Poem Six?

2. What do the remainder of the characters say in Poem Five keeps them from crying and dying?

3. What does the main character in Poem Four decide to do as a result of her relationship?

4. Early in Poem Three, what is the main character's favorite type of music?

5. What is the only way that the lady in orange says she can communicate at the beginning of Poem Five?

Short Essay Questions

1. What clue(s) does the playwright provide to the audience so that they know Poem One is about African American women?

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

3. Describe the imagery and language in Poem Nineteen. Describe the rage in Poem Nineteen.

4. What does the final dance represent?

5. What contrasts and juxtapositions are apparent at the beginning of Poem Eleven?

6. Why does the lady in brown open and close the play?

7. Why does the playwright use music in the play?

8. 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"?

9. What happens in Poem Twelve? How do the women deal with the situation that arises?

10. According to the stage directions, how does Sequence Four end?

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