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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. Who grabs J.S. in the dark in Scene 6?

2. What is Melissa drinking during Scene 1?

3. Which of these is not something Melissa advises J.S. to have with her?

4. What does J.S. tell her nighttime visitor it is important for her to have?

5. What is Melissa doing during Scene 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does J.S. feel after the first session with the women?

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

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

4. Describe the setting of Scene 2.

5. How does Scene 6 begin?

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

7. Why does Nuna come into the room in Scene 4?

8. Why are the women so skeptical about J.S. and Melissa's intentions?

9. Why does Jelena want to get Azra a man at home?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Please describe the climax of this play and its significance.

Essay Topic 2

Choose any three of Aristotle's 6 elements of theater and discuss their use in "Necessary Targets."

Essay Topic 3

In Scene 16, Zlata says, "We are dead--all of us--to the suffering." How is this quote representative of the message Ensler is trying to send through her work?

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