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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character says, "are we ghouls?/ children of horror?/ the joke?"
(a) The lady in orange.
(b) The lady in green.
(c) The lady in brown.
(d) The lady in red.

2. What is the setting of this work?
(a) Asia.
(b) Europe.
(c) Africa.
(d) America.

3. In Poem One, which character says, "dark phrases of womanhood/of never havin been a girl"?
(a) The lady in green.
(b) The lady in brown.
(c) The lady in orange.
(d) The lady in red.

4. Based on Poem One, what is this play about?
(a) It is about finding love.
(b) It is about abused women in America.
(c) It is about single women and their pursuits.
(d) It is about African American women finding their voice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the lady in orange from?

2. At the end of Poem One, what type of colored girls does the narrator say this play is for?

3. What game do the characters play at the end of the play?

4. How many characters run onto the stage at the beginning of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?

5. 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"?

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