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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. The chorus in the "Overture" of "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World" suggest who should listen to the story of what happened, write it down and preserve it?
(a) The men.
(b) The women.
(c) The youth.
(d) The elderly.

2. What is a narrative technique wherein events are portrayed out of chronological order?
(a) Modernist narrative.
(b) Nonlinear narrative.
(c) Postmodern narrative.
(d) Linear narrative.

3. What was the name of Abraham Lincoln's wife?
(a) Emily Carolyn Lincoln.
(b) Susan Martha Lincoln.
(c) Betty Laura Lincoln.
(d) Mary Todd Lincoln.

4. In the "Overture" of "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World," the characters suggest that the black man moved his hands when the world was what?
(a) Flat.
(b) Ancient.
(c) Colder.
(d) Unexplored.

5. What word means to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority?
(a) Persecute.
(b) Lynch.
(c) Chastise.
(d) Execute.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Miss recall her mother doing with her hair in "Pickling"?

2. In the "Overture" of "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World," the characters refer to when the man who did what while falling?

3. What does Lucy's son say his father taught him before he left in "A - Big Bang" of The America Play?

4. What is the short song which Miss Miss opens "Pickling" about?

5. In scene "A" of "Devotees in the Garden of Love," what is Lily looking through?

Short Essay Questions

1. What play does the Foundling Father introduce in The America Play, "B - Echo"? What takes place?

2. How does Parks intertwine linear narrative and metaphor in The America Play?

3. How does the objective of the Foundling Father relate to other protagonists in the collection?

4. What allusion is implied in the arrival of the winner's head, presented to George on a platter in "Devotees in the Garden of Love"?

5. What is evoked in the gunshots in The America Play, "Act One: Lincoln Act"?

6. What role does race play in "Devotees in the Garden of Love"?

7. In what ways does Madame Odelia Pandahr build suspense in scene "D" of "Devotees in the Garden of Love"?

8. What structural format does "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World" follow?

9. How does the term "pickling" apply to the play "Pickling"?

10. What are Lucy and Brazil doing in The America Play, "A - Big Bang"? Where are they?

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