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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Duchess missing half of at the start of Part 2?
(a) Half of her money.
(b) Half of her hair.
(c) Half of her makeup.
(d) Half of her fingers.

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

3. At the start of the play a white woman walks across the stage. What is the white woman wearing?
(a) A nightgown.
(b) An African dress.
(c) A suit.
(d) A towel.

4. What is symbolic about what the Duchess is losing?
(a) She is sexually confused.
(b) She is leaving capitalist society.
(c) She is shedding her African American traits.
(d) She is becoming a hippie.

5. What does the audience realize the white woman is muttering as she crosses the stage a second time?
(a) That she is God.
(b) That the voices will not stop.
(c) That she will never let a black man touch her.
(d) That she will never let a white man touch her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was happening to the person the African-American man dreamed about?

2. What does the Duchess think her father wants to do to her?

3. Why does the Landlady believe Sarah's hair is falling out?

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

5. What does Sarah claim she used to kill her father?

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