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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the object around "Negro's" neck symbolize?
(a) The cold climate.
(b) Lynching.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Religion.

2. What happens because of the African-American man's feelings about himself?
(a) He receives a promotion.
(b) His hair falls out.
(c) He kills himself.
(d) He becomes wealthy.

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

4. What is odd about the Duchess father's presence?
(a) He climbs through the window.
(b) He is not invited.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He has three fingers.

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

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

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

8. Why does the Landlady believe Sarah's hair is falling out?
(a) Sarah shaves her head.
(b) Stress.
(c) She is suffering from the death of her father.
(d) Chemotherapy.

9. What sound is heard throughout Part 2?
(a) Clapping.
(b) Screaming.
(c) Crying.
(d) Knocking.

10. What is the job of the Duchess' father symbolic of?
(a) African-Americans losing themselves to the "white man's" religion.
(b) The stereotype of African-Americans as entertainers.
(c) The joy in her family.
(d) The Harlem Renaissance.

11. Who does the African-American man that walks on stage represent?
(a) Sarah's brother.
(b) Sarah's father.
(c) Sarah's boyfriend.
(d) Sarah's son.

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

13. What does the Duchess' reaction to her father cause her to do?
(a) Lose her hair.
(b) Lose her money.
(c) Lose her identity.
(d) Lose her job.

14. At the end of Part 2, what does the African-American man claim he did?
(a) Beat his father to death.
(b) Became very successful.
(c) Went to prison.
(d) Raped a woman.

15. Who is Raymond?
(a) An Asian man.
(b) A black man.
(c) A Latino man.
(d) A white man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the African-American man say happened to his hair?

2. Where was the person the African-American man dreamed about sitting?

3. What did the Duchess' father do for a job?

4. Where does "Negro" tell people she lives?

5. How does the African-American man speak about his life?

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