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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "Negro" long to have?
(a) Money.
(b) Family.
(c) White friends.
(d) Black friends.

2. At the end of Part 2, what does the African-American man claim he did?
(a) Beat his father to death.
(b) Became very successful.
(c) Raped a woman.
(d) Went to prison.

3. How does the African-American man speak about his life?
(a) Negatively.
(b) In song.
(c) With joy.
(d) Positively.

4. What happens because of the African-American man's feelings about himself?
(a) His hair falls out.
(b) He becomes wealthy.
(c) He kills himself.
(d) He receives a promotion.

5. What ethnicity is the person who makes the continuous noise in Part 1?
(a) African-American.
(b) Hispanic.
(c) White.
(d) Asian.

6. What was the person the African-American man dreamed about doing?
(a) Calling to him.
(b) Singing.
(c) Reading a book.
(d) Laughing.

7. Who does the African-American man that walks on stage represent?
(a) Sarah's brother.
(b) Sarah's son.
(c) Sarah's father.
(d) Sarah's boyfriend.

8. What is the job of the Duchess' father symbolic of?
(a) The joy in her family.
(b) The stereotype of African-Americans as entertainers.
(c) African-Americans losing themselves to the "white man's" religion.
(d) The Harlem Renaissance.

9. What does the object around "Negro's" neck symbolize?
(a) The cold climate.
(b) Lynching.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Religion.

10. What does the Duchess ask Raymond to do?
(a) Kiss her.
(b) Kill her.
(c) Marry her.
(d) Hide her.

11. What does "Negro" claim is her only African-American feature?
(a) Her eyes.
(b) Her ears.
(c) Her hair.
(d) Her skin tone.

12. What does the Landlady tell Sarah about her father?
(a) That her death is her fault.
(b) That her father was an honorable man.
(c) That he is not her father.
(d) That his death is not her fault.

13. What is the African-American man's dream symbolic of?
(a) Sarah's fear of rejection.
(b) Sarah's fear of intimacy.
(c) The Landlady's fear of intimacy.
(d) Sarah's mother's fear of intimacy with an African-American male.

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

15. Who opens Part 2 of Adrienne Kennedy's play?
(a) The Landylady.
(b) Sarah.
(c) The Duchess and Raymond.
(d) Duchess and the queen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the Duchess say her mother is?

3. What does the Duchess bring to the Queen?

4. Who does the Duchess represent?

5. What does Queen Victoria say in her scene with the Duchess in Part 2?

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