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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charlene complain the apartment is infested with in scene "C" of "Snails"?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Rats.
(c) Cockroaches.
(d) Mice.

2. Who arrives looking for the person with the cockroach bites in scene "F" of "Snails"?
(a) Lutzky.
(b) Veronica.
(c) Molly.
(d) Chona.

3. What term is used to refer to African American Vernacular English, asserting the independence of this from (standard) English?
(a) Jabonics.
(b) Ebonics.
(c) Nubonics.
(d) Blabonics.

4. What title of a play in the collection was derived from a phrase in a half-waking dream of the author's?
(a) "Pickling."
(b) "The America Play."
(c) "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World."
(d) "Devotees in the Garden of Love."

5. What is the first of four short plays anthologized under the title "Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom"?
(a) "Squirrels."
(b) "Sasquatch."
(c) "Serpents."
(d) "Snails."

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events?

2. What is Molly's name in scene "F" of "Snails"?

3. In "Elements of Style" Parks urges playwrights to find what in the lines of the characters?

4. In what European country did Suzan-Lori Parks spend part of her childhood?

5. In her opening essays, what does Parks define as "the holding or having of something of one's own"?

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