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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arrives looking for the person with the cockroach bites in scene "F" of "Snails"?
(a) Molly.
(b) Veronica.
(c) Lutzky.
(d) Chona.

2. What is the first of four short plays anthologized under the title "Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom"?
(a) "Serpents."
(b) "Squirrels."
(c) "Sasquatch."
(d) "Snails."

3. In "Elements of Style," Parks incorporates diagrams illustrating how some of her works function as what?
(a) Mathematical equations.
(b) Postmodernist identities.
(c) Methodical melodramas.
(d) Grammatical symbols.

4. In "An Equation for Black People Onstage" Parks writes, "The bulk of relationships Black people are engaged in onstage is the relationship between the Black and the" what?
(a) "Female other."
(b) "White lifestyle."
(c) "White perspective."
(d) "White other."

5. For what play did Parks receive the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama?
(a) In The Blood.
(b) Topdog/Underdog.
(c) Locomotive.
(d) The Sinner's Place.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement?

2. What term is used to refer to African American Vernacular English, asserting the independence of this from (standard) English?

3. Where was Suzan-Lori Parks born?

4. In "Snail," scene "C," Molly announces her decision to not make a career out of what?

5. What title of a play in the collection was derived from a phrase in a half-waking dream of the author's?

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