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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What didn't the African-American man's mother want him to do?
(a) Move to Africa.
(b) Divorce his wife.
(c) Have a child.
(d) Marry his wife.

2. What does the African American man claim he was born between?
(a) A rock and a hard place.
(b) Two worlds.
(c) A mother and father.
(d) Two generations.

3. What was happening to the person the African-American man dreamed about?
(a) He or she was losing their hair.
(b) He or she was getting a hair cut.
(c) He or she was dying.
(d) He or she was bleeding.

4. What is the African-American man's dream symbolic of?
(a) The Landlady's fear of intimacy.
(b) Sarah's fear of intimacy.
(c) Sarah's fear of rejection.
(d) Sarah's mother's fear of intimacy with an African-American male.

5. What color does "Negro" believe to be the color of evil?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Green.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Raymond say Sarah lived?

2. How many times do the characters retell this story in Part 5?

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

4. After Sarah's death, what does the Landlady say Sarah told her?

5. What does Sarah's suicide symbolize?

(see the answer key)

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