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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. Which woman mentions no one ever took her picture?

2. What does Melissa say she needs her shoes to be?

3. What is Melissa drinking during Scene 1?

4. Which woman tells Melissa she doesn't want to be recorded?

5. What does Seada say the baby smells like?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Melissa's background?

2. How does J.S. think staying at the barracks will affect her work?

3. How does Nuna react to being asked to start at the women's meeting in Scene 3?

4. What is Melissa's response to J.S.'s comment about her young age?

5. How does J.S. feel about going to a hotel?

6. How does Scene 6 begin?

7. How does Melissa see the first meeting as having gone?

8. What happens after J.S. and Melissa laugh together?

9. Why doesn't Melissa eat the food J.S. offers her?

10. What is Jelena reminiscing about as Scene 5 opens?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Ensler use masks, both physical and emotional, to advance the theme of pretense in this play?

Essay Topic 2

Compare the effect the trip to Bosnia has on Melissa vs. the effect it has on J.S. Please be specific.

Essay Topic 3

What is the significance of Ensler's setting both the opening and closing scenes in J.S.'s apartment?

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