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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, La Selva Subterranea: Initiation in the Underground Forest.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The woman is a _______-woman in this story, which makes her unique and different from other women.
(a) Tiger.
(b) Bird.
(c) Seal.
(d) Fish.

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

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

4. To whom did the wife go in order to find out how to help her husband with his problems?
(a) A healer.
(b) His mother.
(c) Baba Yaga.
(d) Her mother.

5. Who does the young girl go off to see in order to get the item that the stepmother and step sisters have requested?
(a) Hecate.
(b) Mama Rata.
(c) Baba Yaga.
(d) The town healer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through what does Baubo see the world, as described in this story?

2. Estes talks to the readers about rage and about having ________ with it in order to better understand it.

3. A woman and a man are in love with each other and they are with each other, but they are not ____________.

4. Estes says that mentally and emotionally, people may suffer from areas where they lack _____________.

5. It is the __________ of Baubo that ends up saving the goddess from the depths of her depression.

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