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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What newspaper does the author quote the statistic about a certain region's women who were more susceptible to genital mutilation?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Times-Picayune.
(c) THe Boston Globe.
(d) The Chicago Tribute.

2. Whose activist spirit does the author of the Forward describe when discussing her sex organs?
(a) Her mother and grandmothers.
(b) Her children.
(c) Her friends.
(d) Her sisters.

3. What does the quote used at the beginning of "The Vagina Workshop" use to describe the vagina?
(a) A fountain.
(b) A butterfly.
(c) A shell or flower.
(d) A diamond.

4. What does the movement created by the author aim to raise awareness of and bring an end to?
(a) Violence against women.
(b) Incest.
(c) The spread of AIDS.
(d) Genocide in Africa.

5. In what state was the Vagina Monologues originally presented?
(a) New York.
(b) California.
(c) Nevada.
(d) Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in the first monologue of the play say you must love in order to love the vagina?

2. How are the side effects to the invasive genital surgeries performed on many women described?

3. How does the speaker of "My Angry Vagina" speak in the monologue?

4. What age group are the women that are first discussed in the introduction to "The Flood"?

5. What does the author say the root causes of violence against women are, in the Introduction?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gloria Steinem describe the religious ties female genitalia has in India?

2. How does the author describe a 'wild collective song' in "I was Twelve, My Mother Slapped Me"?

3. Why does the narrator of "My Angry Vagina" believe the approaches of those invading her vagina were all wrong?

4. What does the author note at the end of the Preface regarding the monologues?

5. Why does the author say she decided to write about the vagina in the introductions of the beginning of the play?

6. What is the story of the 70-year-old woman described in "The Flood"?

7. How does a woman describe the hair around her vagina and its role in her relationship with her husband in the monologue "Hair"?

8. What is the nature of the author's discussion of the vagina at the beginning of the Preface?

9. Describe Gloria Steinem's discussion about female genitalia in the beginning of the Foreword.

10. How does the author describe the way rape was used as a weapon of war in Bosnia?

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