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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. Who manipulates a woman into shaving her pubic hair in the first monologue of the play?

2. What year did the war discussed in the introductions to "My Vagina was a Village" take place?

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

4. What does the speaker of "...My Mother Slapped Me" say began to emerge from other women around her?

5. What do many of the reactions share in "...My Mother Slapped Me" comment on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author share about the ties of female genitalia to witchcraft in one of the vagina facts?

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

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

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

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

6. How does a woman who suffered cancer react to the author in regards to her questions in "The Flood"?

7. How does a woman say she came to accept and enjoy her vagina in "Because he liked to look at it"?

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

9. What is the purpose of the workshop discussed in "The Vagina Workshop"?

10. How is menstruation discussed in "I Was Twelve, My Mother Slapped Me"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In monologues like "Reclaiming Cunt" and "The Little Coochie Snorcher that Could", it is clear that the author has exhibited the great power words can have. Part 1.) What argument might the author be making about words based on her use of such vulgar language in many parts of the book? Part 2.) What might the author want for readers to learn about the power words can have over others, based on her use of them in the book, and what might she be hoping for others to do with that power?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the portrayal of men and women in the book. What might we be able to learn about the author's opinions of men based on their portrayal in the book; how do men create violence for women?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the author's portrayal of war in the play and the impact it has on the characters discussed in the monologues. What impact does the war have on the women living in the regions where the war was going on, according to the author's portrayal of the Bosnian war victims in the book?

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