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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 holiday was the first V-Day presentation held on?

2. What does the author say was a big influence in the spread of the V-Day movement across the United States?

3. Who does the author discuss the birth of in the book?

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 age was the older woman that the speaker from "The Little Coochi Snorcher that Could" had her first lesbian affair with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the prostitute's work described in "The Woman who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy"?

2. How does the prostitute describe female moaning in "The Woman who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy"?

3. How do the authors describe the original creation of V-Day by Eve Ensler in the monologue "In the Beginning"?

4. What does the lesbian that is in the second interview in "The Woman who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy" say about vaginas?

5. How is the expansion of V-Day described in "The V-Day Model Expands"?

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

7. Describe the plight the transgendered woman faced in "They Beat the Girl out of my Boy...or so they Tried".

8. What role did college campuses have in furthering the V-Day movement?

9. What is the nature of the responses to the question "What does a Vagina Smell Like"?

10. How does the author address spousal violence in "Islamabad"?

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 portrayal of genital mutilation in the play. What reason can you give for the rate of genital mutilation to be higher in Africa than any other place in the world?

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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