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

2. What was happening to the person the African-American man dreamed about?
(a) He or she was getting a hair cut.
(b) He or she was dying.
(c) He or she was bleeding.
(d) He or she was losing their hair.

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

4. What are the hairpieces that the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria wear made of?
(a) Wild, curly black hair.
(b) Straight black hair.
(c) Long red hair.
(d) Straight blonde hair.

5. What is the job of the Duchess' father symbolic of?
(a) The Harlem Renaissance.
(b) African-Americans losing themselves to the "white man's" religion.
(c) The stereotype of African-Americans as entertainers.
(d) The joy in her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the person the African-American man dreamed about sitting?

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

3. What did the Duchess' father do for a job?

4. Who is Raymond?

5. What does "Negro" claim is her only African-American feature?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the character, the Landlady.

4. What did the African-American man's father tell his son was going to come after him?

5. What does the Duchess say about her mother?

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

7. What is symbolic about Sarah saying she killed her own father?

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

9. What does the white woman who crosses the stage in the white nightgown say the first time? What does she say the second time she crosses the stage?

10. What happened when Sarah's father went to visit her?

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