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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 did Dad have to watch get carved with a knife?

2. What does Zlata tell J.S. she was for them?

3. What does Zlata say Bosnia was at the very end of Scene 16?

4. What beauty product are the women using in Scene 10?

5. What did J.S. want to do when she was younger?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Zlata's theory about how the war happened?

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

3. Describe the Bosnia that Zlata remembers.

4. How does Scene 10 end?

5. How does J.S. describe Melissa?

6. How does J.S. calm Seada in Scene 14?

7. What happened to Zlata's parents?

8. What is the significance of J.S. hearing Melissa vomit?

9. Describe the stage as it appears at the opening of Scene 7.

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

Discuss the ways in which these women are healed by one another.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

In the scene by the river, Melissa asks the women what they are all waiting for. Please choose three of the refugees and explain what they are waiting for and how those things connect them to one another.

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