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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the main character in Poem Four read to the audience?
(a) A letter she left for her lover.
(b) A note that her mother left her.
(c) An entry from her diary.
(d) Her favorite poem about love.

2. What does the main character in Poem Four make a list of?
(a) The ways she loved her man.
(b) Some of the goals she has in life.
(c) Places she would like to live.
(d) The things she looks for in a man.

3. What ties Poems Six and Seven in Sequence Two together?
(a) Images of violence.
(b) Images of sadness.
(c) Images of happiness.
(d) Images of greed.

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

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

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

7. Which character(s) run off the stage after the start of Poem Seven?
(a) The ladies in blue and purple.
(b) The ladies in red and green.
(c) The lady in green.
(d) The lady in purple.

8. What images are contrasted in Poem Six?
(a) Images of a courtly gentleman and images of the same men holding fists.
(b) Images of battered women and images of women who have not been battered.
(c) Images of young men and images of old men.
(d) Images of Black men and images of White men.

9. What is the race of the characters in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf?
(a) African American.
(b) Asian American.
(c) Hispanic.
(d) White American.

10. What ties Poems Two, Three, Four, and Five in Sequence One together?
(a) The image of singing.
(b) The image of sorrow.
(c) The image of dancing.
(d) The image of laughter.

11. What are the stage directions for all of the characters on stage at the end Poem Six?
(a) The characters dance to the music.
(b) The characters run to one side of the stage.
(c) The characters fall to the floor.
(d) The characters are all hit by an imaginary slap.

12. Who is with the main character in Poem Seven as she is relaying what is happening to her?
(a) Her friends,
(b) Her dog.
(c) No one.
(d) Her family.

13. Where is the lady in green from?
(a) Outside San Francisco.
(b) Outside Houston.
(c) Outside St. Louis.
(d) Outside Baltimore.

14. How does the character in Poem Seven feel mentally about her situation?
(a) She feels shameful.
(b) She feels sad.
(c) She feel anxious.
(d) She feels happy.

15. Where is the lady in brown from?
(a) Outside Chicago.
(b) Outside St. Louis.
(c) Outside Detroit.
(d) Outside San Francisco.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of these folk songs does the cast of the play sing in Poem One?

2. In Poem Two, where does the poem's main character go with the guy she met at the party?

3. In Poem Six, which character says, "pin-ups attached to the insides of his lapels"?

4. In Poem Two, what happened to the poem's main character the day after the party?

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

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