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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 speaker's boyfriend in "Because He Liked to Look at It"?

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

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

4. What does the speaker of "The Flood" say made her resentful for having to talk about her vagina?

5. What are the ideals that the speaker of "My Angry Vagina" would like on a trip to the doctor's office?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The overall theme of the book and the play itself is to celebrate and fight for the empowerment of women. Part 1.) How does the subject matter presented in the play suggest a need for women empowerment and what goal are they hoping to achieve from encouraging it? Part 2.) What role does the public performances of the Vagina Monologues have on the growing movement of women empowerment around the world, especially on college campuses?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's use of the "Vagina Fact" in the book. What information might the author be trying to distribute to the reader through these facts and the Vagina Facts throughout the play?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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