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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about the area of the city that the African-American man's father tried to hurt himself?
(a) It didn't have transportation.
(b) It was an African American ghetto.
(c) There were no churches.
(d) It was a white neighborhood.

2. Who loses his or her hair in Part 4?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Jesus.
(c) The landlady.
(d) The African American man.

3. What did the African-American man's mother want him to learn on his journey?
(a) Successful business methods.
(b) The school system.
(c) Re-learn what life was like there.
(d) The language.

4. Who returns to the stage in Part 4?
(a) Raymond.
(b) Monica.
(c) The African-American man.
(d) The Landlady.

5. Which characters are in the scene when Part 4 begins?
(a) The Duchess and Jesus.
(b) The Queen.
(c) The Queen and Jesus.
(d) The Duchess.

6. What sound is heard in Part 4?
(a) Howling.
(b) Humming.
(c) Ringing.
(d) Knocking.

7. What was the purpose of the object Sarah's father sent her?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Birthday gift.
(d) Love.

8. What happens when Jesus wakes up in Part 4?
(a) He cries.
(b) He leaves the room.
(c) He claims he is moving to New York.
(d) He claims he will go back to Africa.

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

10. In whose name does Jesus claim he is going to kill someone at the end of Part 4?
(a) God and the Duchess.
(b) Sarah.
(c) God and Queen Victoria.
(d) The Duchess and the Queen.

11. On what holiday did Sarah visit her father?
(a) Easter.
(b) Valentine's Day.
(c) New Years.
(d) Halloween.

12. What was the African-American man's father doing prior to what he did to African-American man's mother?
(a) Running.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Doing drugs.
(d) Working.

13. Who did Sarah's father's mother want him to become?
(a) A teacher.
(b) President.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A messiah.

14. The African-American man is telling another character's story. What aspect of this character's life do we learn through the African-American man?
(a) His father's life.
(b) Her father's life.
(c) His mother's life.
(d) Her mother's life.

15. What part of the city was the African-American man's father in when he tried to hurt himself?
(a) Harlem.
(b) Queens.
(c) Annapolis.
(d) Main Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when Sarah saw her father in Part 4?

2. Where was the African-American man's father when he tried to hurt himself?

3. What does the rejection of the African-American man's mother symbolize?

4. What did the African-American man's father do to his mother?

5. The African-American man says his father tried to hurt himself at the end of Part 3. What did he try and do?

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