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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 do people think Angie is strange?

2. Which character thinks that good works are most important?

3. When did Joan take a lover?

4. What did Joan hope to understand as Pope?

5. Each of the following is a conflict for Jeanine's career except:

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the significance of the menstrual blood exchange between Kit and Angie? Are they trying to prove anything here?

3. What is the significance of Act 1, Part 2 ending with the waitress clearing the table?

4. Why does Marlene harp so much on the fact that she left her unpleasant past life behind?

5. Explain the bullying going on in Act 2, Scene 2.

6. What evidence from the play supports Marlene's eagerness to show her admiration for people who have tried to make something of themselves?

7. Why does Marlene become overwrought and have to leave the room when the conversation topic turns to the women's lovers?

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

9. How does Angie lack traditional femininity in Act 2, Scene 2?

10. Before you learn that Shona is lying, does she show that she deserves a chance to be sent on a good job interview? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How could the scene between Angie and Kit in Act 2, Scene 3, Part 1 serves as a statement that the characters find femininity in general to be gross? Consider three examples in your analysis.

Essay Topic 2

What is notable about the dialogue in Act 1? How does the particular dialogue style or pattern (as opposed to content) represent Marlene and the other characters? What is the overall effect?

Essay Topic 3

How is Griselda's character a contrast to the other women in Act 1? What is Griselda's purpose is for being in the play?

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