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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's hair loss in Part 4 signify?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Loss of identity.
(c) Loss of love.
(d) Death.

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

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

4. What place does the poetic imagery the Landlady uses in Part 4 reflect?
(a) Russia.
(b) France.
(c) America.
(d) Africa.

5. What is the significance of the ability for the characters to hide their hair loss?
(a) That identity is still in place.
(b) That people can hide flaws.
(c) The lack of permanence in people's lives.
(d) That hair loss is no big deal.

6. What happened when Sarah saw her father in Part 4?
(a) She hit him.
(b) She kissed him.
(c) She hugged him.
(d) She ran past him.

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

8. What was the African-American man supposed to become?
(a) A doctor.
(b) President.
(c) A Christ-like figure.
(d) A teacher.

9. Who wanted the African-American man to achieve an unattainable goal in Part 3?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) His church.
(d) His daughter.

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

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

12. What does the neighborhood the African-American man's father tried to harm himself in signify to Sarah?
(a) Her acceptence of African American Culture.
(b) Her rejection of African American culture.
(c) Her rejection of Caucasion culture.
(d) Her rejection of Asian culture.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where did the African-American man's mother want him to travel to?

4. Who did the African American-man's father say were coming for him?

5. What part of the city was the African-American man's father in when he tried to hurt himself?

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