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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 do the characters ironically suggest in Poem Six?
(a) A battered woman is a weak woman.
(b) A women raped by someone she knows, asks for it.
(c) A failed marriage is always the woman's fault.
(d) A pregnant teen has no morals.
2. Who does the lady in brown call to at the beginning of Poem One?
(a) The lady in green.
(b) The lady in red.
(c) The lady in purple.
(d) The lady in blue.
3. Based on Poem One, what is a major theme of the play?
(a) Time.
(b) Death.
(c) An individual's relations to the gods.
(d) Freedom through story-telling.
4. What topic is mentioned in Poem Two that leads the reader into the next poem?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Violence.
(c) Latin dances.
(d) Marriage.
5. In Poem One, which character says, "and this is for colored girls who have considered suicide/but moved to the end of their own rainbows"?
(a) The lady in blue.
(b) The lady in yellow.
(c) The lady in purple.
(d) The lady in brown.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many characters run off stage after the lights change at the end of Poem Five?
2. What does the main character in Poem Four decide to do as a result of her relationship?
3. What song plays at the beginning of Poem Two?
4. Which one of these folk songs does the cast of the play sing in Poem One?
5. Who is the first person to speak in the play?
Short Essay Questions
1. What issue is discussed in the final poem?
2. According to the stage directions, how does Sequence Four end?
3. Describe the character in Poem Fourteen.
4. Why do the women describe themselves as living outside of the cities in Poem One?
5. What contrasts are made in Poem Fifteen?
6. What do the final lines of the play represent?
7. What do the two songs at the end of Poem One represent?
8. Why does the playwright use music in the play?
9. Describe Poem Nine.
10. How are the poems in Sequence Two linked to each other?
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