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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the character in Part 4 do when he or she realizes his or her hair fell out?
(a) Laughs.
(b) Screams with terror.
(c) Cries.
(d) Moans.

2. Where did the African-American man's mother want him to travel to?
(a) Africa.
(b) England.
(c) Australia.
(d) France.

3. What was the African-American man's father's reaction to the treatment of his wife?
(a) He killed her.
(b) He became more determined to find a job.
(c) He became more determined to be the messiah.
(d) He hit his son.

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

5. What did the African-American man's father do to his mother?
(a) He divorced her.
(b) He kissed her.
(c) He bought her a ring.
(d) He raped her.

6. What did the African-American man's father say the people that were coming for him were going to do to him?
(a) Arrest him.
(b) Shoot him.
(c) Nail him to a cross.
(d) Hang him.

7. In whose home does Jesus fall asleep in?
(a) The home of the Queen.
(b) The home of Sarah.
(c) The home of the Duchess.
(d) His own house.

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

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

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

11. 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) There were no churches.
(c) It was a white neighborhood.
(d) It was an African American ghetto.

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

13. Who does Jesus say he will kill?
(a) The Queens' father.
(b) Patrice Lumumba.
(c) The Landlady.
(d) Patrick Hanson.

14. What condition was Sarah's father in when she saw him in Part 4?
(a) He was drunk.
(b) He was injured.
(c) He was hallucinating.
(d) He was on drugs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who loses his or her hair in Part 4?

2. On what holiday did Sarah visit her father?

3. What was the economic status of the neighborhood where the African-American man's father tried to hurt himself?

4. What did Sarah's father want from her?

5. What sound is heard in Part 4?

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