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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the Duchess represent?
(a) An element of the author.
(b) An element of black history.
(c) An element of the Landlady.
(d) An element of Sarah.

2. What is symbolic about what the Duchess is losing?
(a) She is shedding her African American traits.
(b) She is leaving capitalist society.
(c) She is sexually confused.
(d) She is becoming a hippie.

3. What was happening to the person the African-American man dreamed about?
(a) He or she was dying.
(b) He or she was losing their hair.
(c) He or she was bleeding.
(d) He or she was getting a hair cut.

4. Where did the African-American man's father and mother travel to?
(a) Russia.
(b) Europe.
(c) Asia.
(d) Africa.

5. Who does Jesus fall asleep next to?
(a) Sarah.
(b) The Landlady.
(c) No one.
(d) The Duchess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What calms the balding character down in Part 4?

2. At the end of Part 2, what does the African-American man claim he did?

3. What is the job of the Duchess' father symbolic of?

4. Who returns to the stage in Part 4?

5. What is the significance of the continuous sound?

(see the answer key)

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