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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker in the first monologue of the play say you must love in order to love the vagina?
(a) Pubic hair.
(b) Sex.
(c) The woman.
(d) The mind.

2. What kind of accent does the speaker of the monologue "The Flood" have?
(a) Russian.
(b) Jewish, Queens.
(c) English.
(d) Southern.

3. Complete the following sentence of the speaker from "My Vagina was a Village", "They invaded it, _______ it and burned it down".
(a) Butchered.
(b) Killed.
(c) Tortured.
(d) Hated.

4. How old is the speaker of the monologue discussing when her mother slapped her?
(a) 16.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 20.

5. In what city was the Vagina Monologues originally presented?
(a) Austin.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York City.
(d) Los Angeles.

6. Who is the noted feminist that writes in the Forward of the book?
(a) Margaret Sanger.
(b) Eve Ensler.
(c) Gloria Steinem.
(d) Lucy Stone.

7. What does the speaker of "My Vagina was a Village" describe her vagina as before the war?
(a) A wet water village.
(b) A safety net.
(c) A heart.
(d) A harbor.

8. Apart from having their clitorises removed, what does a newspaper article say was also a common surgery involved in genital mutilation?
(a) Placing a metal plate in them.
(b) Sewing their vagina shut.
(c) Tying their tubes.
(d) Placing a chastity belt on them.

9. In what year does the investigation of witchcraft discussed in the vagina fact take place?
(a) 1605.
(b) 1650.
(c) 1765.
(d) 1593.

10. What do many of the reactions share in "...My Mother Slapped Me" comment on?
(a) Their fathers.
(b) Their friends.
(c) Their sisters.
(d) Their mothers.

11. What does the speaker of "The Flood" say brought on her first experience with a flood?
(a) An intense kiss with a boy.
(b) Her first date.
(c) Her first period.
(d) Her first sexual experience.

12. Which of the following is not one of the answers given to the second question the author presents with multiple answers in the book?
(a) Brave choice.
(b) Find me.
(c) Who are you.
(d) I'm here.

13. How is the speaker's boyfriend described in "Because He Liked to Look at It"?
(a) Odd looking.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Handsome.

14. Where does the author of the Forward travel to and discover much about female genitalia's power?
(a) Egypt.
(b) China.
(c) India.
(d) Spain.

15. What weapon of war does the author wish to raise awareness of in the introductions to "My Vagina was a Village"?
(a) Murder.
(b) Torture.
(c) Rape.
(d) Kidnapping.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author conclude the word vagina is not, in the Preface?

2. Where was the author shocked to discover many rapes taking place in the introductions to "My Vagina was a Village"?

3. What does the woman discussed in the introduction to "The Flood" do when she finally finds her clitoris?

4. What is the name of the speaker's boyfriend in "Because He Liked to Look at It"?

5. How would the euphemisms used in the opening comments before the play describing the vagina be described?

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