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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What might get in the way of a job with a lot of travel for Jeanine?
(a) Jeanine gets very lonesome when she travels.
(b) Women are not usually hired for traveling jobs.
(c) There are not many traveling jobs available.
(d) Marlene does not think Jeanine can handle a job like that.

2. Why did Nijo take the course in life she did?
(a) To deepen her studies.
(b) To escape a repressive government.
(c) To repent for a life of sin.
(d) To see the world's beauties.

3. Where does Joyce want the girls to go while they are in the yard?
(a) To the movies.
(b) Out of the house.
(c) Over to Kit's house.
(d) Into the house.

4. Which character interrupts Joan several times during the telling of her story?
(a) Isabella.
(b) Marlene.
(c) The waitress.
(d) Nijo.

5. What is wrong with Angie's dress in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) It is too small.
(b) It is the wrong color.
(c) It is out of style.
(d) It is too large.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the journey that Gret describes?

2. What was Nijo's previous occupation?

3. Where does Angie's aunt live?

4. What part of Joan's education was missing?

5. What is the consequence of Joan's birth experience?

Short Essay Questions

1. What parallel can be drawn between Jeanine and Marlene?

2. Based on what you know about Louise's character, how might she act when she returns to her office today?

3. Why might Joan have taken a lover when she was Pope?

4. How did Nell react to Shona's attempt to take control during their interview?

5. How was Marlene's birthing experience similar to or different from that of Nijo's and Joan's?

6. Why might Griselda have defended her husband's actions?

7. Of the two characters, Joyce and Marlene, which one thinks she made the right decisions in life?

8. Describe a unique feature of Act 1's dialogue, and why it may be presented/designed this way.

9. How does Angie's desperation to connect with her aunt manifest itself through lies in Act 3, Part 1?

10. How does Louise's character parallel Joan's character?

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