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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the job of the Duchess' father symbolic of?
(a) The stereotype of African-Americans as entertainers.
(b) The Harlem Renaissance.
(c) African-Americans losing themselves to the "white man's" religion.
(d) The joy in her family.

2. What does the white woman do as she walks across the stage?
(a) She mumbles.
(b) She screams.
(c) She sobs.
(d) She laughs.

3. What does Sarah claim she used to kill her father?
(a) A noose.
(b) A knife.
(c) A black skull.
(d) A gun.

4. What was the African-American man supposed to become?
(a) A Christ-like figure.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A teacher.
(d) President.

5. What is the play's stage setting supposed to represent?
(a) Downtown Harlem.
(b) A farm.
(c) A circus.
(d) A funhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. The African-American man reappears in the scene with the Duchess and the Queen. What is he carrying?

2. What does Queen Victoria say in her scene with the Duchess in Part 2?

3. Where did the African-American man's mother want him to travel to?

4. What is heard throughout the scene with the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria?

5. Where was the person the African-American man dreamed about sitting?

(see the answer key)

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