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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Part 4 of the play begin?
(a) In Sarah's house.
(b) In the Queens' house.
(c) On the street.
(d) In the Duchess' house.

2. What did Sarah find at the location she searched for her father?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) No one was home.
(d) A gun.

3. Where did the African-American man's mother end up living?
(a) A penthouse.
(b) In the suburbs.
(c) An asylum.
(d) A retirement home.

4. What does the cross symbolize in the play?
(a) Africa.
(b) The Klu Klux Klan.
(c) America.
(d) Jesus.

5. How did the African-American man's father feel about his son?
(a) He was disappointed.
(b) He loved him.
(c) He hated him.
(d) He was indifferent.

6. What did the African-American man do for his mother?
(a) He cleaned for her.
(b) He took care of her.
(c) He raised her children.
(d) He cooked for her.

7. Who did the African American-man's father say were coming for him?
(a) Soliders.
(b) Doctors.
(c) The police.
(d) Ghosts.

8. What did Sarah's father want from her?
(a) Money.
(b) Food.
(c) Her forgiveness.
(d) Her love.

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

10. What calms the balding character down in Part 4?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Alchohol.
(c) That the baldness can be hidden.
(d) A hot bath.

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

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

13. What did the African-American man's father feel about himself?
(a) He thought he was wise.
(b) He thought he was handsome.
(c) He loved himself.
(d) He hated himself.

14. What other name Queen Victoria was Queen Victoria known by?
(a) "Great White Mother."
(b) "Great Mother."
(c) "Queen V."
(d) "Great Black Mother."

15. What is the first thing the Duchess and Jesus speak about?
(a) Her lack of identity.
(b) His father's blackness.
(c) Her father's blackness.
(d) Her father's whiteness.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Who did Sarah's father's mother want him to become?

4. What did Sarah's father say that his existence depended on?

5. What does the neighborhood the African-American man's father tried to harm himself in signify to Sarah?

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