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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. Angie says that she dreamed:
(a) That she was able to fly.
(b) That she could hear others' thoughts.
(c) That she could change things by thinking about them.
(d) That she would one day have her own company.

2. According to Joan, what the pope says is:
(a) Rarely spiritual.
(b) The truth.
(c) Often a lie.
(d) Sometimes confusing.

3. What does Marlene order to drink at the restaurant as the play opens?
(a) Water.
(b) Wine.
(c) Soda.
(d) Nothing.

4. Where does Marlene work?
(a) An employment agency.
(b) At a college.
(c) A tecnology company.
(d) An insurance agency.

5. As the baby grew inside of Joan, she:
(a) Thought she had experienced immaculate conception.
(b) Thought about the beauty of the life inside her.
(c) Just thought she was getting fat.
(d) Thought the baby would grow up to be pope.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nijo relate to Gret?

2. Which character sometimes dressed as a man?

3. Which character used to love getting dressed?

4. What do Nijo and Isabella's main shared experience?

5. Why did Nijo take the course in life she did?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Win's position at Top Girls a positive expression of her power?

2. Why might Griselda have defended her husband's actions?

3. How might Marlene have reacted if she had a husband like Walter?

4. What evidence from the play supports Marlene's eagerness to show her admiration for people who have tried to make something of themselves?

5. How do Marlene and Joyce struggle for power over the way each one remembers the past?

6. How does Act 2, Scene 1 sketch an example of the post-feminist world?

7. How does Churchill portray women in dynamic and unlikely spiritual roles?

8. Based on the information given in the play, why might respect for a private life be important to Jeanine?

9. Why might the author include so few details about the identity of Marlene's lover?

10. Before you learn that Shona is lying, does she show that she deserves a chance to be sent on a good job interview? Why?

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