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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 author say simply having a vagina makes an individual a target for, in the Preface?
(a) Lust.
(b) Violence.
(c) Love.
(d) Unhappiness.

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

3. 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 girlfriend.
(b) Her gynocologist.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her therapist.

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

5. How does the speaker of "The Vagina Workshop" describe her orgasms before the workshop?
(a) Exciting.
(b) Wonderful.
(c) Accidental.
(d) Upsetting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker of "My Vagina was a Village" describe her vagina as before the war?

2. What does a woman describe that her husband does not like about her in the first monologue of the play?

3. Who is the author of the book?

4. What does the author say being raped made her do mentally and emotionally from her vagina?

5. Whose activist spirit does the author of the Forward describe when discussing her sex organs?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the affects of being raped as a child?

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

3. Describe Gloria Steinem's discussion about female genitalia in the beginning of the Foreword.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the purpose of the workshop discussed in "The Vagina Workshop"?

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