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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 will never let a black man touch her.
(b) That the voices will not stop.
(c) That she will never let a white man touch her.
(d) That she is God.

2. What ethnicity is the person who makes the continuous noise in Part 1?
(a) Hispanic.
(b) White.
(c) African-American.
(d) Asian.

3. What sound is heard throughout Part 2?
(a) Screaming.
(b) Clapping.
(c) Crying.
(d) Knocking.

4. What does the Landlady say happened to Sarah's father?
(a) He moved to the city.
(b) He shot himself.
(c) He married a new wife.
(d) He hanged himself.

5. Where does "Negro" tell people she lives?
(a) A large house.
(b) The streets.
(c) A farm.
(d) A small apartment.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is Raymond?

4. How does Adrienne Kennedy describe the Landlady's character?

5. What does the Duchess bring to the Queen?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is symbolic about Harlem in Part 3?

4. Who is Raymond?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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