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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 kind of art does the author of the Forward describe as portraying the power of the female?
(a) Impressionist.
(b) Religious.
(c) Portraits.
(d) Landscapes.

2. What was the purpose of removing the clitoris in the United States, when it was still performed?
(a) To punish women.
(b) To cure masturbation.
(c) To prevent pregnancy.
(d) To cure rape.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the movement created by the author aim to raise awareness of and bring an end to?

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

3. Apart from having their clitorises removed, what does a newspaper article say was also a common surgery involved in genital mutilation?

4. What is the title of the first monologue in the book?

5. What does the author say simply having a vagina makes an individual a target for, in the Preface?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the woman's dream about a flood described in her monologue?

3. How does a woman say she came to accept and enjoy her vagina in "Because he liked to look at it"?

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

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

6. How were orgasmic women in the 19th century treated, according to the "Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets"?

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

8. What does the author note at the end of the Preface regarding the monologues?

9. How are the original stage presentations of the Vagina Monologue described, after it was first written?

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

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