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

2. Who does "Negro" transform into?
(a) The landlady.
(b) The queen.
(c) Sarah.
(d) The duchess.

3. What does "Negro" long to have?
(a) Money.
(b) White friends.
(c) Black friends.
(d) Family.

4. Why does the Landlady believe Sarah's hair is falling out?
(a) Stress.
(b) Sarah shaves her head.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) She is suffering from the death of her father.

5. What does the Landlady repeatedly do?
(a) Cry.
(b) Scream.
(c) Laugh.
(d) Shout.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was happening to the person the African-American man dreamed about?

2. Who does the African-American man that walks on stage represent?

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

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

5. What hairstyle does the Duchess' mother have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What hope did the African-American man's father's mother have for him?

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

3. Describe the character, the Landlady.

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

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

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

7. Describe the African-American man that walks on stage in Part 2.

8. Who was the African-American man's grandmother against her son marrying?

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

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

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