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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Sarah contribute to her father's death?
(a) By pushing him.
(b) By hiring a hit man.
(c) Through negligence.
(d) Through her self-hate.

2. How does a character calm down the balding character in Part 4?
(a) By shaving his or her head.
(b) By giving a kiss.
(c) By showing that he or she is bald too.
(d) By giving a hug.

3. Who opens the play in Part 3?
(a) The Duchess
(b) Sarah.
(c) The African-American man.
(d) The Queen.

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

5. What did Sarah's father say that his existence depended on?
(a) Her thanking him.
(b) Her rejecting him.
(c) Her embracing him.
(d) Her forgetting him.

6. The African-American man says his father tried to hurt himself at the end of Part 3. What did he try and do?
(a) Hang himself.
(b) Shoot himself.
(c) Poison himself.
(d) Cut himself.

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

8. Where did the African-American man's father and mother travel to?
(a) Russia.
(b) Asia.
(c) Africa.
(d) Europe.

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the African-American man's mother want him to learn on his journey?

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

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

4. 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?

5. Who does Jesus say he will kill?

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