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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 is Angie's secret?

2. How does Angie feel about her aunt?

3. What does Marlene order to drink at the restaurant as the play opens?

4. The job Jeanine will interview for with less pay also offers:

5. What did Isabella do after her lover died?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Shona attempt to take control during her interview with Nell?

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

4. What is Joyce's attitude toward and about Angie in Act 2, Scene 2?

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

6. Why might the author include so many dinner guests who have worn men's clothing?

7. How is Win's position at Top Girls a positive expression of her power?

8. 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?

9. Based on the dialogue from Act 1, Part 3, how might you say that Isabella and Marlene are alike?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"Top Girls" is the play's title as well as the name of the employment agency where Marlene works. What is the meaning of the title of the play? What ironies exist in this title? Explain your response in detail.

Essay Topic 2

What prominent metaphor is the feature of Dull Gret's story in Act 1, Part 3? Why does Marlene not participate in this part of the celebration?

Essay Topic 3

Consider the following theme: Women have come a long way from being reviled for their independence. How is this theme displayed by the characters and their actions in the play?

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