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

2. What do the Duchess of Hapsburg and Queen Victoria wear on their faces?
(a) Masks or white makeup.
(b) Masks or black makeup.
(c) Silk scarves.
(d) Feathers.

3. How does the African-American man feel about himself?
(a) He despises himself.
(b) He loves himself.
(c) He thinks he is manly.
(d) He thinks he is handsome.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Queen Victoria discover in her scene?

2. What does the African-American man say happened to his hair?

3. Where does the play open?

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

5. What does the Duchess' reaction to her father cause her to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What hope did the African-American man's father's mother have for him?

2. How does Sarah describe herself?

3. Describe Patrice Lumumba.

4. Describe the African-American man that walks on stage in Part 2.

5. What do the Duchess and Jesus do to each other in Part 4?

6. What does Raymond accuse Sarah of? What is the truth?

7. What happened when Sarah's father went to visit her?

8. What appears in the center of the stage? How does Sarah react?

9. What does the Duchess say about her mother?

10. Who appears onstage after the lights go out in Part 5 and what does she announce?

(see the answer keys)

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