TG

Question 1

Act 1 – Female travel; colonial gaze; ambition; autonomy

Answer 1

Isabella Bird’s opening at the dinner

Question 2

Act 1 – Patriarchal exploitation; sexuality; religious constraint

Answer 2

Lady Nijo’s story

Question 3

Act 1 – Intellectual suppression; gender disguise; religious authority

Answer 3

Pope Joan’s account

Question 4

Act 1 – Female suffering; male control; virtue ideology

Answer 4

Patient Griselda’s obedience story

Question 5

Act 1 – Rage; class experience; violence; resistance

Answer 5

Gret’s war story

Question 6

Act 1 – Polyphony; fragmentation; communication struggle; marginalisation

Answer 6

Overlapping dinner table speech

Question 7

Act 1 – Neoliberal feminism; self-making; competition

Answer 7

Dinner celebrating Marlene’s promotion

Question 8

Act 1 – Reproduction; sacrifice; maternal politics

Answer 8

Debate over motherhood at dinner

Question 9

Act 1 – Historic continuity; patriarchy; intersectionality

Answer 9

Shared trauma among historical women

Question 10

Act 2 Scene 1 – Professional ambition; managerialism; Thatcher-era values

Answer 10

Marlene at the recruitment agency

Question 11

Act 2 Scene 1 – Marriage vs career; structural barriers

Answer 11

Jeanine’s interview

Question 12

Act 2 Scene 1 – Disruption; class; family neglect

Answer 12

Angie arrives at the office

Question 13

Act 2 Scene 1 – Workplace hierarchies; sexual politics; career compromises

Answer 13

Win’s interactions with clients

Question 14

Act 2 Scene 1 – Cynicism; gender in corporate culture

Answer 14

Nell and Win banter

Question 15

Act 2 Scene 1 – Competitive individualism; performance; corporate power

Answer 15

Marlene’s management style

Question 16

Act 2 Scene 2 – Identity formation; neglect; aspiration

Answer 16

Angie’s play-acting and fantasies

Question 17

Act 2 Scene 2 – Working-class labour; domestic burden; sacrifice

Answer 17

Joyce caring for Angie

Question 18

Act 2 Scene 2 – Classism; determinism; fate

Answer 18

Comments on Angie’s intelligence

Question 19

Act 2 Scene 2 – Vulnerability; abandonment anxieties

Answer 19

Angie’s fear of adolescence

Question 20

Act 3 – Sisterhood conflict; class politics; responsibility

Answer 20

Marlene returns to Joyce’s home

Question 21

Act 3 – Ideology; inequality; feminism vs class

Answer 21

Argument about Thatcherism

Question 22

Act 3 – Motherhood; secrecy; intergenerational trauma

Answer 22

Revelation Marlene is Angie’s biological mother

Question 23

Act 3 – Class struggle; resentment; sacrifice

Answer 23

Joyce confronting Marlene’s careerism

Question 24

Act 3 – Emotional repression; self-protection

Answer 24

Marlene’s guilt and denial

Question 25

Act 3 – Uncertainty; false hope; structural tragedy

Answer 25

Angie’s final line (‘going to like it here’)

Question 26

Act 3 – Repressed memories; familial conflict; truth-telling

Answer 26

Drunken tensions between sisters

Question 27

Act 3 – Meritocracy critique; inequality; aspiration

Answer 27

Politics of social mobility