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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. For what type of venue was the Vagina Monologues originally written?

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

3. How old was the last female patient to have a clitoral removal in the United States?

4. What is the title of the first monologue in the book?

5. What do the workshop participants in "The Vagina Workshop" try to become with their vaginas?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator describe her first flood in the monologue of the same title?

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

5. What conclusion does the woman who is made to shave her private parts come to regarding the purpose of genital hair in "Hair"?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Violence against women is a leading theme in the author's overall message to the readers of the book. Part 1.) Why does the author argue that women are more subjected to violence than men? Part 2.) How does the author use visual imagery to raise awareness to the commonplace of female violence in the world? Part 3.) What efforts does the author make to try and bring an end to violence against women?

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