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

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

3. Where does the vagina fact quote from when discussing women's roles in the witch trials?
(a) The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy.
(b) Woman: An Intimate Geography.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets.

4. Who advises the woman in the introduction to "The Flood", who had never seen her vagina, to take time and find her clitoris?
(a) Her gynocologist.
(b) Her therapist.
(c) Her girlfriend.
(d) Her husband.

5. What does the movement created by the author aim to raise awareness of and bring an end to?
(a) Violence against women.
(b) Incest.
(c) The spread of AIDS.
(d) Genocide in Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ratio of nerve fibers are found to be in the vagina compared to the penis?

2. What does the speaker of "The Flood" say her first experience with the flood made her do towards her vagina?

3. How old is the speaker of the monologue discussing when her mother slapped her?

4. What year did the war discussed in the introductions to "My Vagina was a Village" take place?

5. Which of the following items does the speaker of "My Angry Vagina" not describe as being an unpleasant invasion on her vagina?

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

4. How does the author describe V-Day activities in the introduction?

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

6. What conclusion does the woman who is made to shave her private parts come to regarding the purpose of genital hair in "Hair"?

7. How does Gloria Steinem describe the religious ties female genitalia has in India?

8. What is the story of the 70-year-old woman described in "The Flood"?

9. How does the narrator describe her first flood in the monologue of the same title?

10. How is menstruation discussed in "I Was Twelve, My Mother Slapped Me"?

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