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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. What is the white statue in "Negro's" room of?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) Venus.
(c) Beethoven.
(d) David.

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

3. An African-American man walks on stage in Part 2. What is he carrying?
(a) A mask.
(b) A baby.
(c) A knife.
(d) A bible.

4. What is the Duchess afraid of in Part 2?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) The Queen.
(d) Her father.

5. Why do the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria feel bound to the Duchess' father?
(a) Because he lends them money.
(b) Because they are sisters.
(c) Because he keeps returning.
(d) Because they share a home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the white woman do as she walks across the stage?

2. What does the audience realize the white woman is muttering as she crosses the stage a second time?

3. What does the Landlady tell Sarah about her father?

4. Who does the African-American man say he dreamed about?

5. What hairstyle does the Duchess' mother have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whose story does the African-American man tell in Part 3?

2. How does Sarah describe the rooms around her?

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

4. Who appears on stage with Sarah and what does he do to Sarah?

5. What is symbolic about the bag of hair the Duchess brings on stage?

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

7. What is symbolic about the mask the African-American man carries on stage?

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

9. What appears in the center of the stage? How does Sarah react?

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

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