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

2. What does the African-American man say happened to his hair?
(a) It grew longer.
(b) It fell out.
(c) He dyed it.
(d) He shaved it.

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

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

5. What does the Duchess bring to the Queen?
(a) A bag of clothes.
(b) A blanket.
(c) A bag of hair.
(d) A plate of food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Negro" wear around her neck?

2. What hairstyle does the Duchess' mother have?

3. Who opens Part 2 of Adrienne Kennedy's play?

4. What is the Duchess afraid of in Part 2?

5. What does the Landlady say happened to Sarah's father?

(see the answer key)

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