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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do people think Angie is strange?

2. What does Marlene order to drink at the restaurant as the play opens?

3. Which character's children were taken away and never returned?

4. The job Jeanine will interview for with good pay also offers:

5. Kit and Angie argue over whose mother is:

Short Essay Questions

1. What might be a more symbolic reason Angie wants all the women to wear the perfume?

2. How is Louise her own worst enemy during her job interview?

3. What genre might be used to describe the play during Act 1? Explain why.

4. What is the significance of the menstrual blood exchange between Kit and Angie? Are they trying to prove anything here?

5. How is Griselda's experience with her children similar to or different from Marlene's experience with her own?

6. How is Marlene compared to her coworker Howard by the other women in the office?

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

8. Based on what you know of Marlene's character from the play, do you think she would do things differently if she had the chance?

9. How is Mrs. Kidd's presence in Act 2, Scene 3, Part 2 a reminder of Marlene's determination to succeed?

10. How does Angie's desperation to connect with her aunt manifest itself through lies in Act 3, Part 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is notable about the dialogue in Act 1? How does the particular dialogue style or pattern (as opposed to content) represent Marlene and the other characters? What is the overall effect?

Essay Topic 2

How does the subject matter of babies help define Marlene's character? Consider Marlene's association or disassociation with the other women's experiences in Act 1.

Essay Topic 3

"Top Girls" is the play's title as well as the name of the employment agency where Marlene works. What is the meaning of the title of the play? What ironies exist in this title? Explain your response in detail.

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