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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 does the author find a connection between in the comments before "I Was There in the Room"?

2. What does the author say most of the women discussed in the introduction to "The Little Coochi Snorcher that Could" suffered as young girls?

3. What is the name of the monologue that discusses birth?

4. What does the author say the woman based on the monologue "The Little Coochi Snorcher that Could" was able to find and escape her past?

5. What does the author say that she realized lesbians did differently that she realized after "The Woman who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the birth of her granddaughter in the book?

2. What conclusion does the author come to regarding the words of the prostitute at the end of "The Woman who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy"?

3. Describe the speaker's dissection of the word cunt in the play.

4. How is the burqa described in the monologue "Under the Burqa"?

5. Describe the nature of the "Spotlight Monologues".

6. How does the author describe the reactions of her public performances of the Vagina Monologues in "Reclaiming cunt"?

7. Describe the contents of the "V-Timeline: Ten Years of Vagina Victories" at the end of the book.

8. What is the nature of the short monologue "I Asked a Six Year Old Girl"?

9. How is raising V-Day awareness described in "Spreading the Word"?

10. How does the speaker in "The Vulva Club" describe naming her vagina?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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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