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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. What does Melissa say everything is about for J.S.?

2. What illness does Zlata tell J.S. she has?

3. What does Melissa say is not her verb?

4. What does Jelena have in her bag?

5. What does J.S. hear Melissa doing at the beginning of Scene 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Azra in a hole in Scene 12?

2. How did Melissa stop her horrible nightmares?

3. What significant compliment does Zlata give J.S. in Scene 16?

4. Why is J.S. scratching?

5. What is Melissa's feeling about the recorder in Scene 9?

6. Describe the Bosnia that Zlata remembers.

7. What are the things that J.S. and Zlata say might drive them to violence?

8. What actually happened to Seada's baby?

9. How did Jelena get a black eye?

10. What is the argument about the alcohol in Scene 13?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Doona and what is her role in both the action and the theme of the play?

Essay Topic 2

Compare J.S.'s character in the opening scene with the J.S. who returns home; use at least three specific examples.

Essay Topic 3

How does Ensler use the character of Zlata to embody the perennial "Us vs. Them" conflict?

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