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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where does the Duchess say her mother is?
(a) In a retirement home.
(b) In hell.
(c) In heaven.
(d) In an asylum.

6. Who does "Negro" transform into?
(a) Sarah.
(b) The duchess.
(c) The landlady.
(d) The queen.

7. What does the Duchess ask Raymond to do?
(a) Hide her.
(b) Kill her.
(c) Marry her.
(d) Kiss her.

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

9. How does Adrienne Kennedy describe the Landlady's character?
(a) Man-like.
(b) Dull.
(c) Clown-like.
(d) Stoic.

10. What did the person the African-American man dreamed about do to the African-American man?
(a) Hugged him.
(b) Chased him.
(c) Hurt him.
(d) Kissed him.

11. What ethnicity is the person who makes the continuous noise in Part 1?
(a) African-American.
(b) Asian.
(c) Hispanic.
(d) White.

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

13. Who does the Duchess represent?
(a) An element of black history.
(b) An element of Sarah.
(c) An element of the Landlady.
(d) An element of the author.

14. On what did "Negro" write poetry?
(a) Mirrors.
(b) Computers.
(c) White paper.
(d) Yellow paper.

15. Who does the African-American man say he dreamed about?
(a) His father.
(b) God.
(c) His mother.
(d) His uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the play's stage setting supposed to represent?

2. What does the Landlady believe Sarah thinks she is?

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

4. What is symbolic about the African-American man's hair?

5. What hairstyle does the Duchess' mother have?

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