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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. According to Joan, being pope:

2. The job Jeanine will interview for with good pay also offers:

3. How does Angie feel about her aunt?

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

5. What is the perk of the job Marlene mentions to Jeanine that has less pay?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ironic about Angie's worship of Marlene?

2. What might be the real reason Louise wants to leave her current job?

3. What genre might be used to describe the play during Act 1? Explain why.

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

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

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

7. How is Mrs. Kidd's presence in Act 2, Scene 3, Part 2 a reminder of Marlene's determination to succeed?

8. Why might Joyce have been so short with Marlene on her visit?

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

10. How do Marlene and Joyce struggle for power over the way each one remembers the past?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Act 3, Part 1, how does Marlene fight to keep Joyce from convincing her that she made the wrong choices? Consider specific words and actions she delivers to stand her ground.

Essay Topic 2

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"?

Essay Topic 3

What is the symbolic significance of Angie's dress seen in Act 2, Scene 3 as well as in other parts of the play as well? How does wearing the dress make Angie feel?

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