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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the characters ironically suggest in Poem Six?
(a) A women raped by someone she knows, asks for it.
(b) A pregnant teen has no morals.
(c) A failed marriage is always the woman's fault.
(d) A battered woman is a weak woman.

2. Who is the artist that sings the song at the start of Poem Six?
(a) The Dells.
(b) Willie Colon.
(c) Martha and the Vandellas.
(d) Carlos Santana.

3. What does the main character in Poem Three identify as her race/heritage?
(a) Mostly African American with hints of White.
(b) Mostly Spanish with hints of African American.
(c) Mostly African American wih hints of Spanish.
(d) Mostly White with hints of Spanish.

4. What does each character do before anyone starts to speak?
(a) Runs on stage and freezes in a position of distress.
(b) Sings a popular song.
(c) Dances to a popular song.
(d) Runs on stage and falls on the floor.

5. What song plays at the start of Poem Six?
(a) "Drive Me Crazy."
(b) "Shake Me Down."
(c) "Che Che Cole."
(d) "Cha Cha Cha."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the purpose of Poem One?

3. What does the main character in Poem Four make a list of?

4. How many characters run off stage after the lights change at the end of Poem Five?

5. How does the narrator in Poem Seven tell her story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the lady in brown mean in Poem One when she says, "dark phrases of womanhood/ of never havin been a girl/ half-notes scattered/ without rhythm/ no tune"?

2. According to the stage directions, how does Sequence Four end?

3. Why does the lady in brown open and close the play?

4. What is the theme of Poem Three? How is this a theme of the poem?

5. Describe the language and imagery in Poem Two.

6. What contrasts and juxtapositions are apparent at the beginning of Poem Eleven?

7. Who is the main character in Poem Eight? What story does the lady in purple share about this character?

8. Why does the lady in green call on white women and other men in Poem Seventeen?

9. How does the language change at the end of Poem Nineteen? At what point at the end of the play does the language change?

10. Who is the main character in Poem Ten? What story does the lady in red share about this character?

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