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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. At the start of the play a white woman walks across the stage. What is the white woman wearing?
(a) An African dress.
(b) A suit.
(c) A nightgown.
(d) A towel.

2. What is the play's stage setting supposed to represent?
(a) A funhouse.
(b) Downtown Harlem.
(c) A farm.
(d) A circus.

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

4. What city does "Negro" tell the audience she lives in?
(a) Baltimore.
(b) New York.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Nashville.

5. What is symbolic about the African-American man's hair?
(a) It represents Sarah's shedding of African American identity.
(b) It represents the the change in society.
(c) It represents nothing.
(d) It represents Sarah's growth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria in Part 1?

2. Where does the play open?

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

4. How does the African-American man speak about his life?

5. What is the Duchess missing half of at the start of Part 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who appears onstage after the lights go out in Part 5 and what does she announce?

2. What is symbolic about all of the characters losing their hair?

3. What happened to the African-American man's father?

4. What does the truth Raymond reveals about Sarah say about her?

5. Describe the set at the opening of Adrienne Kennedy's play.

6. What does the Duchess say about her mother?

7. Describe the Duchess and Queen Victoria the first time the audience sees them.

8. Where did the African-American man's mother end up?

9. Describe the character, the Landlady.

10. When Jesus wakes up who does he say he will kill and for who?

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