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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sequence One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the main character in Poem Four decide to do as a result of her relationship?
(a) She decides to get a divorce.
(b) She decides to leave.
(c) She decides to stay.
(d) She decides to move in with her mother.

2. What do all of the characters in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf have in common?
(a) They are all women.
(b) They are all White.
(c) They are all in their 20s.
(d) They are all from the suburbs.

3. Where is the lady in red from?
(a) Outside San Francisco.
(b) Outside Chicago.
(c) Outside Baltimore.
(d) Outside St. Louis.

4. In Poem One, which character(s) say(s), "mama's little baby likes shortnin bread"?
(a) The lady in purple.
(b) Everyone.
(c) The lady in orange.
(d) The lady in yellow.

5. In Poem Two, where does the poem's main character go with the guy she met at the party?
(a) To a swing on the back porch.
(b) To a friend's house down the street.
(c) To his house down the street.
(d) To his Buick in the parking lot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Early in Poem Three, what is the main character's favorite type of music?

2. What is the only way that the lady in orange says she can communicate at the beginning of Poem Five?

3. Which character relays the main narrative in Poem Four?

4. In Poem One, which character says, "and this is for colored girls who have considered suicide/but moved to the end of their own rainbows"?

5. Which character relays the main narrative in Poem Three?

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