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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Marking Territory: The Boundaries of Rage and Forgiveness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of Baubo's body is able to speak and to converse with others in the story in this chapter?
(a) Hand.
(b) Face.
(c) Genitals.
(d) Toes.

2. What happens during the course of the partnership between the man and the woman?
(a) Their house burns down.
(b) They meet Baba Yaga.
(c) They have a child.
(d) They move away from the water.

3. In one version of the story, the woman attacks the man, hurting him emotionally to conform to the _____________.
(a) Legalities of common law marriages.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Social order.
(d) Government policies.

4. Who is the one standing in the way of Manawee's plans to court the woman/women that he wants to court?
(a) The father.
(b) The son.
(c) The chief elder.
(d) The mother.

5. The new shoes represent exactly what the ___________ wanted for her life, not what she necessarily wanted.
(a) Devil.
(b) Government.
(c) Queen.
(d) Mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Baubo is a grown woman's ________ as visualized in the context of the story in this chapter.

2. People used to fear _____________ as they were an indication of strangeness when they were seen in society.

3. The father believed the lovers would be able to persevere if they married with the _______________ kind of real love.

4. When the man and the woman are together, they have a few ___________ which ends up complicating things.

5. What rots away after the Skeleton Woman is killed or brutally injured, depending on the version of the story?

(see the answer key)

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