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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of Poem One?
(a) It is an innvocation.
(b) It is the introduction to a character's life.
(c) It is a preface to the story.
(d) It is a song about the main characters.

2. What is the last line of Poem Seven?
(a) waznt no need for colored folks to bear no cross at all.
(b) & we are left with scars.
(c) i just cdnt stop grinnin.
(d) once i waz pregnant & shamed of myself.

3. What does the main character in Poem Ten allow men to do?
(a) She allows them to hit her.
(b) She allows them to spend her money
(c) She allows them to spend the night.
(d) She gives them no allowances.

4. What similarities exist between the cities that each character says that they are from?
(a) They are all state capitols.
(b) They are all in a depression.
(c) They are all on the east coast of the United States.
(d) They are all urban cities in America.

5. What was the profession of the main character in Poem Eight?
(a) A gypsy woman.
(b) A boat operator.
(c) A carnival dancer.
(d) A maid.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem Fourteen, what does the narrator say she lacks in order to look for love?

2. At the end of Poem Eighteen, what suggestion does the narrator make to the person with whom she is speaking with?

3. What type of literary work is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?

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

5. Where does the narrator say she "usedta live" in Poem Eleven?

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