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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the African-American man that walks on stage represent?
(a) Sarah's father.
(b) Sarah's boyfriend.
(c) Sarah's brother.
(d) Sarah's son.

2. What is Raymond dressed as?
(a) A funhouse guide.
(b) A warrior.
(c) A witch.
(d) A waiter.

3. What did the Duchess' father do to her mother?
(a) He married her.
(b) He divorced her.
(c) He raped her.
(d) He killed her.

4. What causes "Negro" to lose her hair?
(a) Stress.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Self-recognition.
(d) She pulls it out.

5. What does the Duchess ask Raymond to do?
(a) Kiss her.
(b) Hide her.
(c) Marry her.
(d) Kill her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who opens Part 2 of Adrienne Kennedy's play?

2. What does the Landlady say happened to Sarah's father?

3. What is the African-American man's dream symbolic of?

4. What is symbolic about the African-American man's hair?

5. What ethnicity is the person who makes the continuous noise in Part 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Duchess and Jesus do to each other in Part 4?

2. What did Sarah's father say his existence depends on and what does this mean?

3. How does the Duchess help Jesus cope with his missing hair?

4. What does the African-American man's father feel about himself?

5. Whose story do the characters on stage in Part 5 tell? What do they repeat over and over?

6. Whose point of view do the characters on stage begin to speak from? What do they say?

7. What happened when Sarah tried to visit her father?

8. In Part 1, who does the audience learn is knocking?

9. How does the lighting in Part 5 change the setting?

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

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