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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 kind of accent does the speaker of the monologue "The Vagina Workshop" have?

2. Who manipulates a woman into shaving her pubic hair in the first monologue of the play?

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

4. How old is the woman described in the introduction to "The Flood" that had never seen her vagina?

5. What does the woman discussed in the introduction to "The Flood" do when she finally finds her clitoris?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How was the last clitoridectomy performed in the United States described in the book?

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

7. How does the author say she was inspired to interview female victims of war in "My Vagina was My Village"?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author allows herself to become a character in the book by adding commentary throughout the play. What reason did the author have for inputting so much personal information into the context of the book, and did it help or hinder the text?

Essay Topic 2

Lesbianism is a theme heavily discussed throughout the book, especially in monologues like "The Woman that Loved to Make Vaginas Happy" and "The Little Coochie Snorcher that Could ". Compare and contrast the portrayals of lesbianism in these two monologues and discuss what reason the author had for creating juxtaposition between these two lesbian speakers.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the author's portrayal of war in the play and the impact it has on the characters discussed in the monologues. What impact does the war have on the women living in the regions where the war was going on, according to the author's portrayal of the Bosnian war victims in the book?

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