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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 does the audience realize the white woman is muttering as she crosses the stage a second time?
(a) That she is God.
(b) That she will never let a white man touch her.
(c) That she will never let a black man touch her.
(d) That the voices will not stop.

2. How does Sarah claim she killed her father?
(a) She hanged him.
(b) She stabbed him.
(c) She shot him.
(d) She knocked him over the head.

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

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

5. On what did "Negro" write poetry?
(a) Yellow paper.
(b) White paper.
(c) Computers.
(d) Mirrors.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does "Negro" wear around her neck?

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

4. What was the person the African-American man dreamed about doing?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Describe how Sarah says she killed her father.

4. What is significant about the Duchess showing Jesus how to wear his hair?

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

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

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

8. What does the audience see after the stage goes into darkness?

9. Who does Jesus believe his father is?

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

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