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

2. What does the investigator find to be evidence that a woman was a witch in the vagina fact?

3. What does the speaker of "My Vagina was a Village" describe her vagina as before the war?

4. Why does a woman claim her husband started "screwing around" in the first monologue of the play?

5. Which source does the author quote as saying the vagina has a high concentration of nerves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the nature of the answers given to the question "If your vagina got dressed what would it wear"?

2. How does "Woman: An Intimate Geography" describe the vagina?

3. How were orgasmic women in the 19th century treated, according to the "Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets"?

4. How does the narrator describe her first flood in the monologue of the same title?

5. What information does the statistic about African women teach us about genital mutilation?

6. How does the narrator of "The Vagina Workshop" describe her first deliberate orgasm?

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

8. How is the woman's dream about a flood described in her monologue?

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

10. What is the nature of the quote used at the beginning of "The Vagina Workshop"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's portrayal of various cultural traditions in the play and analyze the impact they have on women. What impact do the traditions discussed in "Crooked Braid" and "Under the Burqa" have on the women subjected to follow them because of the culture they live in?

Essay Topic 2

The vagina is one of the leading themes presented in the book as a whole. Part 1.) How does the author personify the vagina in the book? Part 2.) What myths does the author try to dispel in the play about the vagina and how does she go about doing so? Part 3.) Why do you think the vagina has become a taboo and not often discussed topic in modern culture?

Essay Topic 3

Violence against women is a leading theme in the author's overall message to the readers of the book. Part 1.) Why does the author argue that women are more subjected to violence than men? Part 2.) How does the author use visual imagery to raise awareness to the commonplace of female violence in the world? Part 3.) What efforts does the author make to try and bring an end to violence against women?

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