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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 do Nijo and Isabella's main shared experience?
(a) Details about their lovers.
(b) Their religious transformations.
(c) Their birthing experiences.
(d) They both travel.

2. Who asks Joan to finish her story about giving birth?
(a) Dull Gret.
(b) Isabella.
(c) Marlene.
(d) Nijo.

3. How does Nijo relate to Gret?
(a) She, too, beat up her oppressor.
(b) She, too, had a relationship with an emperor.
(c) She, too, was sitting quietly at the table all night.
(d) She took the same journey.

4. Jeanine can best be described as:
(a) A smart, but lazy person.
(b) An ambitious woman who lacks self confidence.
(c) A staunch feminist.
(d) A spoiled girl who never had to work for her money.

5. What was Walter's final test of his wife's love?
(a) He cheated on her.
(b) He had her organize his wedding.
(c) He took their first child from her.
(d) He asked her to murder someone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character's children were taken away and never returned?

2. Why did Griselda accept Walter's tests of her love?

3. What might get in the way of a high-paying, demanding job for Jeanine?

4. What was Nijo's previous occupation?

5. How does Griselda feel about her husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why might Churchill have written the character of Griselda as arriving late? What might it symbolize?

2. What is Marlene's power revealed in Act 2, Scene 3, Part 1, and why is this considered a power?

3. Why might Churchill have included a scene between Marlene and a character like Jeanine? How are they similar or different?

4. Why does Marlene become overwrought and have to leave the room when the conversation topic turns to the women's lovers?

5. Before you learn that Shona is lying, does she show that she deserves a chance to be sent on a good job interview? Why?

6. What is ironic about Angie's worship of Marlene?

7. How does Angie's desperation to connect with her aunt manifest itself through lies in Act 3, Part 1?

8. What is Joyce's attitude toward and about Angie in Act 2, Scene 2?

9. Why might the author include so few details about the identity of Marlene's lover?

10. How is Angie's presence in Act 2, Scene 3, Part 2 Churchill's reminder of Marlene's determination to succeed?

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