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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 hairstyle does the Duchess' mother have?
(a) Perm.
(b) Ponytail.
(c) She is bald.
(d) Curls.

2. What is heard throughout the scene with the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria?
(a) Singing.
(b) Knocking.
(c) Laughing.
(d) Crying.

3. What does the Duchess' reaction to her father cause her to do?
(a) Lose her hair.
(b) Lose her identity.
(c) Lose her job.
(d) Lose her money.

4. Where does the play open?
(a) In a school house.
(b) In a bar.
(c) In Sarah's room.
(d) In a funhouse.

5. What did the Duchess' father do for a job?
(a) He was an actor.
(b) He was a writer.
(c) He was a clown.
(d) He was a missionary.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why do the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria feel bound to the Duchess' father?

4. What color dress does the woman Adrienne Kennedy refers to as "Negro" wear?

5. At the start of the play a white woman walks across the stage. What is the white woman wearing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the African-American man's father do to his mother? Why?

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

3. How does Sarah describe the rooms around her?

4. Why does Patrice Lumumba's hair fall out?

5. Describe the African-American man's dream in Part 2.

6. What does the Landlady believe about Sarah's father's death?

7. What do the Duchess and Jesus do to each other in Part 4?

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

9. What does the Duchess tell Raymond about her father in Part 2?

10. What sound occurs during the Duchess' scene with Jesus? Who makes the knocking noise?

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