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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the main character in Poem Three react when she found out that her favorite musician was not going to be playing?
(a) She lost her temper.
(b) She demanded to get her money back.
(c) She tore up the musician's albums.
(d) She started to cry.

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. Who does the lady in brown call to at the beginning of Poem One?
(a) The lady in blue.
(b) The lady in purple.
(c) The lady in red.
(d) The lady in green.

8. In Sequence One, which character says, "we rambled from camden to mount holly/ laughin our tassles from the rear view mirror/ climbin different sorta project stairs"?
(a) The lady in green.
(b) The lady in red.
(c) The lady in yellow.
(d) The lady in blue.

9. How does the character in Poem Seven feel physically in her situation?
(a) She feels pain.
(b) She feels numb.
(c) She feels relaxed.
(d) She feels tired.

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

11. 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 in their 20s.
(b) They are all White.
(c) They are all women.
(d) They are all from the suburbs.

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

13. 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"?
(a) The lady in purple.
(b) The lady in brown.
(c) The lady in yellow.
(d) The lady in blue.

14. How does the main character in Poem Four refer to her relationship with her former boyfriend?
(a) "A test."
(b) "A last chance."
(c) "A crash course in love."
(d) "An experiment."

15. What is the second word spoken in Poem Seven?
(a) Nobody.
(b) Grapes.
(c) Mice.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is with the main character in Poem Seven as she is relaying what is happening to her?

2. At the end of Poem Seven, how does the main character feel?

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

4. What do the remainder of the characters say in Poem Five keeps them from crying and dying?

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

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