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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. Sue believes that like the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz," patriarchal society's heart is being cut away by a ____________.
(a) Hatchet.
(b) Cursed ax.
(c) Fake wizard.
(d) Lack of oil.

2. Women sometimes keep silent in order to avoid being labeled as one of the fanatical ______________.
(a) Mothers.
(b) Zealots.
(c) Lesbians.
(d) Feminists.

3. ____________ is being raped and disregarded and the church stands aloof, seeing matter as inherently evil.
(a) Nature.
(b) Faith.
(c) Childhood.
(d) Honor.

4. A recently ordained minister tells Sue that she is asked to remove her ____________ before officiating so as to take the attention away from her gender.
(a) Makeup.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Dress.
(d) Earrings.

5. After her slip of the tongue at the monastery, Sue begins to realize that she was immersed in the world of the ____________.
(a) Monks.
(b) Mother.
(c) Truth.
(d) Father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not want Sue to go to a planned retreat at a monastery when she is struggling with her emotions?

2. Being _______ had always seemed vaguely limiting, confining, lacking in power, and second-class.

3. Sue believes that the story of Eden is one that created ___________ geography in the world.

4. Psychologists have discovered that there are differences in the ways that the genders make ________ decisions.

5. What does Sue do as a child when she encounters a statue of Mary and feels drawn to it? What does she say?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes Sue to begin to weep for weeks over the Feminine Wound which she has begun to understand?

2. What is the dream that causes Sue Monk Kidd to question her own life and how she relates to it?

3. What is the story that Sue's friend Betty shares with her about how a family teaches their children about the river?

4. Why does Sue have troubles talking with God about her problems in life?

5. What is the 'Great Imbalance' that Sue defines in this section of the book in the discussion about patriarchy?

6. Does Sue ever find a discussion of a time when women were considered to be equal to men in theological studies?

7. What is Sue's daughter doing when the two men begin to make insulting comments to her in the opening pages of the book?

8. What are some of the ways in which snakes have been interpreted in other readings, besides being evil in the Garden of Eden?

9. When Ann is younger and asks why women cannot be deacons in the church, what is the answer that her Vacation Bible School teacher tell her?

10. What does the Bible have to say about the womanly conditions which occur on a monthly basis?

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