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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Queen Victoria discover in her scene?
(a) The Duchess is dead.
(b) Her limbs are rotting.
(c) Her hair is falling out.
(d) Her mother is dying.

3. What does Queen Victoria say in her scene with the Duchess in Part 2?
(a) That she is free.
(b) The scene is silent.
(c) That she is beautiful.
(d) The Queen mumbles.

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

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

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

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

8. What does the Landlady repeatedly do?
(a) Scream.
(b) Shout.
(c) Cry.
(d) Laugh.

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

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

11. What did the person the African-American man dreamed about keep saying?
(a) "Hate."
(b) "Death."
(c) "Black man."
(d) "White man."

12. What does "Negro" long to have?
(a) Family.
(b) Black friends.
(c) White friends.
(d) Money.

13. What does "Negro" claim is her only African-American feature?
(a) Her eyes.
(b) Her ears.
(c) Her skin tone.
(d) Her hair.

14. What do the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria wear on their faces?
(a) Feathers.
(b) Masks or black makeup.
(c) Silk scarves.
(d) Masks or white makeup.

15. What does "Negro" wear around her neck?
(a) A crucifix necklace.
(b) A tie.
(c) A noose.
(d) A scarf.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is making the noise that the the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria hear throughout the scene?

2. What hairstyle does the Duchess' mother have?

3. What is the job of the Duchess' father symbolic of?

4. Where does the Duchess say her mother is?

5. Who does the African-American man that walks on stage represent?

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