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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. What are the names of the two combatants in scene "B" of "Devotees in the Garden of Love"?
(a) Old Man and Young Man.
(b) ThisOne and ThatOne.
(c) Ugly and Handsome.
(d) Red Trunks and Black Trunks.

2. By what title does the Foundling Father refer to the impersonator of Abraham Lincoln in The America Play?
(a) "Descendant."
(b) "Junior."
(c) "The Second Coming."
(d) "The Lesser Known."

3. Miss Miss describes in "Pickling" how Charles once did what?
(a) Tried to kill her.
(b) Saved her life.
(c) Married her mother.
(d) Married her daughter.

4. In "C - Archaeology" of The America Play, Lucy suggests that her son is hearing two sorts of echoes - of the sound connected with his father's life, and of what?
(a) The words.
(b) His ideas.
(c) His death.
(d) The images.

5. What word, used by George in "Devotees in the Garden of Love" means profound dedication or consecration?
(a) Devotion.
(b) Brotherhood.
(c) Believer.
(d) Friendship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles lived next door to whom in "Pickling"?

2. What refers to that characterized by a manner of writing in which a character's thoughts or perceptions are presented as occurring in random form, without regard for logical sequences?

3. What does Lucy's son say his father taught him before he left in "A - Big Bang" of The America Play?

4. How are Charles' arms described in "Pickling"?

5. Who is watching the battle in scene "B" of "Devotees in the Garden of Love"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Parks intertwine linear narrative and metaphor in The America Play?

2. Whose death is announced in "Panel II: First Chorus" of "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World"?

3. How does the objective of the Foundling Father relate to other protagonists in the collection?

4. What structural format does "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World" follow?

5. What is introduced in the "Overture" of "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World"?

6. What does the play on words of "Foundling Father" imply in The America Play?

7. What is suggested about Miss Miss's mother (and African Americans in the past) by her descriptions in "Pickling"?

8. What action takes place on stage as the Foundling Father gives his monologue in The America Play, "Act One: Lincoln Act"?

9. With what song and memories does Miss Miss open the play "Pickling"?

10. In what ways does Madame Odelia Pandahr build suspense in scene "D" of "Devotees in the Garden of Love"?

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