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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 was Nijo's first child?

2. What did Joan hope to understand as Pope?

3. Why does Marlene want Jeanine to get a job?

4. What part of the meal have the women been served by the end of Act 1, Part 1?

5. What is the weather like at the end of Act 2, Scene 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why might Churchill have shown Angie talking one moment about plans to kill her mother and plans to go to the movies the next moment?

4. How is Marlene's coworker Win a reflection on her own character?

5. How is Joyce's husband similar to the other male characters mentioned in the play?

6. How is Griselda's experience with her children similar to or different from Marlene's experience with her own?

7. Why might Churchill have written the character of Griselda as arriving late? What might it symbolize?

8. What sort of metaphor can be drawn from Dull Gret's journey into hell?

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

10. How is Marlene compared to her coworker Howard by the other women in the office?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the play's individualized characters and realistic dialogue create a heightened theatrical reality? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

In thinking about Act 2, what evidence is there of the women act as bullies towards each other? Consider different groups of women in your analysis.

Essay Topic 3

How is the way that Marlene has defined her power in the world different from or similar to the way that Nijo, Joan, Isabella, and Gret did? In terms of how their power was attained, which woman or women are truly the "Top Girls"?

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