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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. Why does a woman claim her husband started "screwing around" in the first monologue of the play?

2. What year did the war discussed in the introductions to "My Vagina was a Village" take place?

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

4. What does the author say simply having a vagina makes an individual a target for, in the Preface?

5. Who advises the woman in the introduction to "The Flood", who had never seen her vagina, to take time and find her clitoris?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The subject of birth is fully examined in the book, namely in the monologue "I Was There in the Room". What connection does the author say that the vagina and the heart have that she realized after witnessing the birth of her granddaughter?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's portrayal of various cultural traditions in the play and analyze the impact they have on women. What impact do the traditions discussed in "Crooked Braid" and "Under the Burqa" have on the women subjected to follow them because of the culture they live in?

Essay Topic 3

In monologues like "Reclaiming Cunt" and "The Little Coochie Snorcher that Could", it is clear that the author has exhibited the great power words can have. Part 1.) What argument might the author be making about words based on her use of such vulgar language in many parts of the book? Part 2.) What might the author want for readers to learn about the power words can have over others, based on her use of them in the book, and what might she be hoping for others to do with that power?

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