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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Landlady believe Sarah thinks she is?
(a) A princess.
(b) A queen.
(c) An actress.
(d) A dancer.

2. Where are the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria in Part 1?
(a) The Queen's room.
(b) Sarah's room.
(c) The chamber room.
(d) The park.

3. What was the person the African-American man dreamed about doing?
(a) Singing.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Calling to him.
(d) Reading a book.

4. What is symbolic about the African-American man's hair?
(a) It represents nothing.
(b) It represents Sarah's shedding of African American identity.
(c) It represents Sarah's growth.
(d) It represents the the change in society.

5. What are the hairpieces that the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria wear made of?
(a) Wild, curly black hair.
(b) Long red hair.
(c) Straight blonde hair.
(d) Straight black hair.

6. Why do the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria feel bound to the Duchess' father?
(a) Because they share a home.
(b) Because they are sisters.
(c) Because he keeps returning.
(d) Because he lends them money.

7. Where does the play open?
(a) In a funhouse.
(b) In Sarah's room.
(c) In a bar.
(d) In a school house.

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

9. What is the Duchess afraid of in Part 2?
(a) Her father.
(b) The Queen.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

10. What is the white statue in "Negro's" room of?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) David.
(c) Venus.
(d) Beethoven.

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

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

13. Where was the person the African-American man dreamed about sitting?
(a) On the floor.
(b) On a beach.
(c) On a bed.
(d) On a chair.

14. 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 she will never let a black man touch her.
(c) That the voices will not stop.
(d) That she will never let a white man touch her.

15. Who does the African American man refer to himself as?
(a) Patrice Frank.
(b) Leonard Nemoy.
(c) Patrice Lumumba.
(d) Patty O'Gill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Landlady tell Sarah about her father?

2. What does the object around "Negro's" neck symbolize?

3. How does Sarah claim she killed her father?

4. Where does the Landlady say Sarah stays?

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

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