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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 class did Sister Leonie teach Alex's senior year in high school?

2. Which campus of the University of Wisconsin had a clinic raided?

3. How long before Alex saw Marla at her old house was there a photograph of her published in the paper?

4. What did Alex fix for dinner after her first day of her senior year of high school?

5. What was Mr. Alphonse's first name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did dragons help an older farm couple in Kansas?

2. Why did Alex think she was told to take calculus again her senior year in high school?

3. What did Alex see after the air raid drill at school?

4. What did Alex do with her mother's things that she brought home from her old house?

5. Why did Alex get sent to the office in Chapter 26?

6. When was the last time that Alex saw her father?

7. What dragonings occurred when Dr. Gantz was studying a group of Women Airforce Service Pilots?

8. What did a group of 25 literature major from Vassar College do the day before the Mass Dragoning of 1955?

9. Who testified on April 15, 1947 before a subcommittee of a subcommittee of the House Un-America Activities Committee, and what happened to them?

10. Why did Alex get mad at Mrs. Gyzinska in Chapter 23?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Innuendo involves using veiled remarks or suggestions to hint at information without stating it directly. It might be used to subtly talk about sexual, offensive, or derogatory subjects. How is innuendo used in When Women Were Dragons to discuss dragoning and dragons?

Essay Topic 2

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of When Women Were Dragons and why is that incident the climax?

Essay Topic 3

Setting is the place or places where a story happens. Where does When Women Were Dragons take place? How do characters, especially Alex, feel about the place and why?

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