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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 is the main subject matter of the monologue discussing a girl being slapped by her mother?
(a) Pregnancy.
(b) Menstruation.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Marriage.

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

3. Whose activist spirit does the author of the Forward describe when discussing her sex organs?
(a) Her friends.
(b) Her children.
(c) Her mother and grandmothers.
(d) Her sisters.

4. What does the speaker of "The Flood" say made her resentful for having to talk about her vagina?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Her period.
(d) Being raped.

5. What are the ideals that the speaker of "My Angry Vagina" would like on a trip to the doctor's office?
(a) Hardness.
(b) Softness and gentleness.
(c) Niceness.
(d) Excitedness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical structures does the author say western religions used religious art in the Forward?

2. What word does the author explain her reasoning for using frequently at the beginning of the Preface?

3. How old was the last female patient to have a clitoral removal in the United States?

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

5. In what year does the investigation of witchcraft discussed in the vagina fact take place?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What information does the statistic about African women teach us about genital mutilation?

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

5. Why does the narrator of "My Angry Vagina" believe the approaches of those invading her vagina were all wrong?

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

7. How does the narrator describe her vagina at the end of "My Vagina was My Village"?

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

9. Why does the author say she decided to write about the vagina in the introductions of the beginning of the play?

10. What is the nature of the quote used at the beginning of "The Vagina Workshop"?

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