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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 images are contrasted in Poem Six?
(a) Images of Black men and images of White men.
(b) Images of battered women and images of women who have not been battered.
(c) Images of a courtly gentleman and images of the same men holding fists.
(d) Images of young men and images of old men.

2. How many characters run onto the stage at the beginning of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?
(a) Three.
(b) Nine.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

3. Who does the main character In Poem Three run off to see?
(a) Celia Cruz.
(b) Tito Puente.
(c) Willie Colon.
(d) Carlos Santana.

4. What is the second word spoken in Poem Seven?
(a) Nobody.
(b) Mice.
(c) Children.
(d) Grapes.

5. In Poem Seven, which character says,"tubes tables white washed windows/ grime from age wiped over once"?
(a) The lady in brown.
(b) The lady in yellow.
(c) The lady in orange.
(d) The lady in blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of this work?

2. How many characters run off stage after the lights change at the end of Poem Five?

3. What is the story in Poem Seven about?

4. What type of literary work is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?

5. Where is the lady in red from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the lady in green call on white women and other men in Poem Seventeen?

2. What does Poem Eighteen allow the characters to do? What do the characters use the poem to describe?

3. Describe Poem Two.

4. Describe the poetic imagery in Poem Six.

5. How does Ntozake Shange juxtapose the images in Poems Six and Seven?

6. What is the purpose of Poem Seven?

7. Describe the language and imagery in Poem Four.

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

9. How is dance used in Poem Four?

10. What do the final lines of the play represent?

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