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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pgs. 59-83.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Over time, since Sue did not know what to do about her experience at the monastery, she _____________ it.
(a) Forgot.
(b) Shared a story about.
(c) Trivialized it.
(d) Laughed about.

2. Womanhood is seen as being too _________ for patriarchal religion, according to Sue.
(a) Visceral.
(b) Tempting.
(c) Dirty.
(d) Simple.

3. Recognizing the feminine wound is important as it is the way for women to stop being ___________ in society.
(a) Victims.
(b) Beaten.
(c) Silent.
(d) Misunderstood.

4. Sue's grandmother used to call it _____________ or what Sue begins to realize women need to tell themselves.
(a) Absent lies.
(b) Flat out truth.
(c) Dark truth.
(d) Dogged truth.

5. Anne Wilson Sherf notes that being born female is often equated with being born ___________ in some way.
(a) Tainted.
(b) Useless.
(c) Dirty.
(d) Boring.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After her slip of the tongue at the monastery, Sue begins to realize that she was immersed in the world of the ____________.

3. What is the last church that Sue attempts to join in order to find a place where her beliefs can be supported in a traditional way?

4. Sue realizes that in her life, whenever she has had a problem, she has turned to _________ for the answers.

5. Sue feels that teenage girls begin to change in those years, sleeping _________ and seeing fitful glimpses of fearful truth.

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