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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. Whose full name is Fina de la Garza del Vedado y Miramar?

2. What does the girl who went to see the ocean carry with her?

3. What does Don Jose want in Act 1?

4. How does Woman 2 say her mother and grandmother walked the land?

5. What does Little Miss Havana wear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Woman 3 do at the beginning of Act 2? What is her song about?

2. What titles has the Beauty Queen held? What is her dream?

3. What do the Women speak of hearing while they dance in Act 2?

4. What happened to Senorita 3's sister?

5. What does one of the Women say about songs and movies, and how they taught her to be a woman?

6. What does the Mother tell her Son she hopes for him? What does he reply?

7. What does Martyr 2 say about the light in her eyes?

8. What is the trick that Catch Woman 2 tells the Girl as to getting a man?

9. What does the Researcher suggest that his wife does? What is his reply?

10. How does Don Jose react when the Midwife tells him he has a daughter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of "Complicity" in Beautiful Senoritas. What does this word mean? How are the characters complicit in the play? Why? How do they feel about their roles in society?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the setting and characters in Beautiful Senoritas. Why is the staging designed as it is? What freedom does this permit the actors? What is the meaning of the lack of character names? What effect does this have? How does it relate to the themes of the play?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of "Stereotype" in Beautiful Senoritas. How does Prida choose to present this theme? Which characters are embodiments of stereotypes? How is this illuminated? Why?

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