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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what did "Negro" write poetry?
(a) Yellow paper.
(b) Computers.
(c) Mirrors.
(d) White paper.

2. Who is making the noise that the the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria hear throughout the scene?
(a) The Duchess' father.
(b) Sarah.
(c) The Queens' father.
(d) The Landlady.

3. What does the Duchess think her father wants to do to her?
(a) Touch her like he did her mother.
(b) Murder her.
(c) Send her away.
(d) Take her to dinner.

4. Where are the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria in Part 1?
(a) The park.
(b) The Queen's room.
(c) Sarah's room.
(d) The chamber room.

5. What does the African American man claim he was born between?
(a) Two worlds.
(b) A mother and father.
(c) A rock and a hard place.
(d) Two generations.

6. What are the hairpieces that the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria wear made of?
(a) Straight blonde hair.
(b) Wild, curly black hair.
(c) Straight black hair.
(d) Long red hair.

7. How does Sarah claim she killed her father?
(a) She stabbed him.
(b) She knocked him over the head.
(c) She hanged him.
(d) She shot him.

8. An African-American man walks on stage in Part 2. What is he carrying?
(a) A bible.
(b) A baby.
(c) A knife.
(d) A mask.

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

10. What did the person the African-American man dreamed about keep saying?
(a) "White man."
(b) "Hate."
(c) "Black man."
(d) "Death."

11. What does the audience realize the white woman is muttering as she crosses the stage a second time?
(a) That she will never let a white man touch her.
(b) That the voices will not stop.
(c) That she will never let a black man touch her.
(d) That she is God.

12. What did the person the African-American man dreamed about do to the African-American man?
(a) Kissed him.
(b) Hurt him.
(c) Hugged him.
(d) Chased him.

13. Why do the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria feel bound to the Duchess' father?
(a) Because he keeps returning.
(b) Because they share a home.
(c) Because they are sisters.
(d) Because he lends them money.

14. What is the play's stage setting supposed to represent?
(a) A farm.
(b) Downtown Harlem.
(c) A circus.
(d) A funhouse.

15. What does Sarah claim she used to kill her father?
(a) A knife.
(b) A black skull.
(c) A gun.
(d) A noose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Landlady tell Sarah about her father?

2. What is symbolic about the African-American man's hair?

3. What does the Landlady repeatedly do?

4. What does the white woman do as she walks across the stage?

5. How does the African-American man feel about himself?

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