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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what does she say someone did with her "stuff" in Poem Seventeen?
(a) Walked off with it.
(b) Threw it away.
(c) Hid it.
(d) Stole it.

2. What did the narrator of Poem Thirteen feel was redundant?
(a) Feeling sorrow and being black.
(b) Being a woman and being black.
(c) Being sensitive and being nice.
(d) Being smart and being a woman.

3. What is the title of Poem Seventeen?
(a) A Laying on of Hands.
(b) Somebody Almost Walked Off Wid Alla My Stuff.
(c) Sorry.
(d) No More Love Poems.

4. What is the title of Poem Eighteen?
(a) A Nite with Beau Wille Brown.
(b) Sorry.
(c) A Laying on of Hands.
(d) Pyramid.

5. What happens when Beau keeps trying to get funding to pay for school in Poem Nineteen?
(a) He enrolls in advanced classes.
(b) He cannot get any money.
(c) He does not register for classes.
(d) He gets placed in remedial classes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem Nine, why was the main character disqualified from a contest that she entered to see which child could read the most books?

2. According to the narrator of Poem Fourteen, what is she looking for in a man?

3. According to the narrator, what happens when Beau learns that the main character is pregnant again in Poem Nineteen?

4. What is Poem Fourteen about?

5. What does the main character in Poem Ten allow men to do?

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