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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 lady in orange do at the end of Poem Four?
(a) She recaps what happened earlier in the poem.
(b) She reads her own letter to a man that she can't talk to anymore.
(c) She convinces the main character to leave her man.
(d) She talks to the audience about love.

2. In Poem Two, what happened to the poem's main character the day after the party?
(a) She could not stop smiling.
(b) She could not find her glasses.
(c) She had a bad headache.
(d) She was in a car accident.

3. Where is the lady in yellow from?
(a) Outside San Francisco.
(b) Outside Detroit.
(c) Outside Chicago.
(d) Outside Houston.

4. Which one of these folk songs does the cast of the play sing in Poem One?
(a) "Ham Bone."
(b) "Shortnin' Bread."
(c) "Jimmy James."
(d) "Miss Mary Mack."

5. Which one of these folk songs does the cast of the play sing in Poem One?
(a) "Riding Down the River."
(b) "Shake It Shimmy."
(c) "Rollercoaster Ride."
(d) "Little Sally Walker."

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem One, which character(s) say(s), "an put your hands on your hips/ an let your backbone slip"?

2. What is the race of the characters in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?

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

4. What topic is mentioned in Poem Two that leads the reader into the next poem?

5. What is the purpose of Poem One?

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