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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 exhorts the others to sing at the end of Scene 11?

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

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

4. Where did the beauty product come from?

5. Which of these is not one of the types of people J.S. and Zlata think might drive them to violence?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Melissa stop her horrible nightmares?

4. How does Scene 10 end?

5. How does J.S. get Azra out of the hole?

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

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

8. Why is J.S. scratching?

9. How does J.S. describe Melissa?

10. How does Nuna feel about her mixed heritage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Please discuss the importance of coffee to the play's action and characters.

Essay Topic 3

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

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