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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the procedure that removes the clitoris?

2. What type of jewel does the speaker of "My Angry Vagina" say her vagina should be wearing?

3. What does the investigator find to be evidence that a woman was a witch in the vagina fact?

4. How does the speaker of "The Flood" say she feels after discussing her private parts?

5. What does the speaker of "The Flood" say brought on her first experience with a flood?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's use of personification in the book, especially in the descriptions of the vagina. How does the author make the vagina into a character in the book, and how is it humanized?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the nature of the book's set-up, including analysis of the Introduction, Forward and Preface. What information are we able to learn from the commentary included in these sections of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the author's portrayal of genital mutilation in the play. What reason can you give for the rate of genital mutilation to be higher in Africa than any other place in the world?

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