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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 did the women write next to their names to indicate they did not want to attend the meeting?

2. Who will provide oral reports to the other women after the meetings?

3. Who did Ona refuse to marry?

4. Who is the father of Ona's child?

5. When did the first meeting occur?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the circumstances of August learning English?

2. What was the aftermath of learning who was assaulting the women?

3. Why did the women not receive counseling after the attacks?

4. Who will decide what the women do?

5. Who is Nettie/Melvin?

6. Why did August come back to the colony?

7. Why are the women banned from the co-op?

8. According to Peters, why were the women attacked?

9. Who is Grant?

10. What images did the women draw, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the women confront their own religious beliefs in this story? What evidence do you have of a change in the women's beliefs? What evidence do you see that their beliefs remain the same?

Essay Topic 2

As mothers, what complexities must the women in Women Talking contend with? What are the broader implications of this situation?

Essay Topic 3

Although this book focuses on women's experiences and problems, a man tells this story. What is the significance of this narrative perspective?

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