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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. Psychologists have discovered that there are differences in the ways that the genders make ________ decisions.
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Education.
(c) Moral.
(d) Family.

2. A man at a mixed gender retreat responded to a woman's concern that the Church marginalized women by saying that the church is _______ and it makes mistakes.
(a) Honored.
(b) Perfect.
(c) Dumb.
(d) Human.

3. What do the women in the women's consciousness-raising group in the movie explore with a mirror?
(a) Their faces.
(b) The outside world.
(c) Their vaginas.
(d) A car.

4. Girls, as they grow up, seem to become _____________ in nature, though they are also powerless inside and overwhelmed by the world.
(a) Motherly.
(b) Bored.
(c) Perfectionistic.
(d) Fatigued.

5. 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) Dress.
(b) Makeup.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Earrings.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the academics who Sue hears speak says that Jesus' intention was ___________ and Sandy agrees.

2. What does a woman in the group feel is a sign to the group and represents a gift to the group?

3. Over time, since Sue did not know what to do about her experience at the monastery, she _____________ it.

4. Women sometimes keep silent in order to avoid being labeled as one of the fanatical ______________.

5. What prompts the beginning of a journey, according to Sue's own experience?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Why is anger something which Sue is afraid to express in her own life?

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

5. How does Sue begin to define the idea of patriarchy when she starts out this section of the book?

6. How does Sue try to avoid dealing with the emerging realization of the Feminine Wound in this section of the book?

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

8. What does Sue feel she is lacking internally that prevents her from questioning the male authority and her role in the world?

9. What does the old woman's t-shirt say which Sue sees when she tries to envision a world which is equal?

10. What does Sue do in order to symbolically cast away the old when she realizes she needs to get rid of her assumptions?

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