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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman discussed in the introduction to "The Flood" do when she finally finds her clitoris?
(a) Laughs.
(b) Smiles.
(c) Yells.
(d) Cries.

2. How does the speaker of "My Angry Vagina" speak in the monologue?
(a) Happily.
(b) Bluntly.
(c) Softly.
(d) Quickly.

3. Who manipulates a woman into shaving her pubic hair in the first monologue of the play?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her therapist.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her gynocologist.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state was the Vagina Monologues originally presented?

2. For what type of venue was the Vagina Monologues originally written?

3. What does the author say the root causes of violence against women are, in the Introduction?

4. Who does the author call to make active transformations in the fight against violence towards women?

5. What idea does the workshop discussed in "The Vagina Workshop" want women to go towards?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author believe simply having a vagina makes someone a target for violence?

2. How does "Woman: An Intimate Geography" describe the vagina?

3. How does the author say she was inspired to interview female victims of war in "My Vagina was My Village"?

4. How does a woman describe the hair around her vagina and its role in her relationship with her husband in the monologue "Hair"?

5. What does a woman claim her vagina wants at the end of "My Angry Vagina"?

6. How does the author describe the way rape was used as a weapon of war in Bosnia?

7. How does the narrator of "The Vagina Workshop" describe her first deliberate orgasm?

8. How does a woman who suffered cancer react to the author in regards to her questions in "The Flood"?

9. What is the nature of the answers given to the question "If your vagina got dressed what would it wear"?

10. How does the author describe a 'wild collective song' in "I was Twelve, My Mother Slapped Me"?

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