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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sue learn that some people think that ERA stands for, in addition to Equal Rights Amendment?
(a) Everything Remains Allowed.
(b) Equal Rigid Amazing.
(c) Everything Right All the time.
(d) Eve Ruined Adam.

2. Christian communities continue to accept the Letter of __________ as proof that women are to be silenced.
(a) Thomas.
(b) Mark.
(c) Paul.
(d) Timothy.

3. Who was at the top of the chart the visiting preacher had drawn in order to show the idea of a God-ordained family?
(a) God.
(b) Church.
(c) Woman.
(d) Man.

4. Hierarchy in the world gives rise to the Great ___________, where the feminine is not as revered as the masculine.
(a) Conspiracy.
(b) Imbalance.
(c) Power.
(d) Truth.

5. Sue did not want to believe that she could be wounded by her own ____________ as she began her journey.
(a) Faith.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Writing.
(d) Husband.

6. How many children does Sue Monk Kidd have as she relates in the story about her history and her background?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

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

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

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

11. Sue realizes she has labeled herself the __________ woman, putting male authority figures at the center of her life and accepting a secondary role.
(a) Pure.
(b) Ambiguous.
(c) Unambiguous.
(d) Normal.

12. What did Sue write about in the first fictional story she ever wrote? A story about a woman who _________ nearly every night.
(a) Dreamt.
(b) Walked in her sleep.
(c) Died.
(d) Cried in her sleep.

13. What happens to Sue as she is talking to Sandy about the emotions coming up for her?
(a) She breaks her dish.
(b) She gets angrier and angrier.
(c) She becomes quieter.
(d) She decides to get a divorce.

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

15. Sue decides that she must follow her internal musical instrument, a ___________.
(a) Guitar.
(b) Drum.
(c) Piano.
(d) Flute.

Short Answer Questions

1. Girls, as they grow up, seem to become _____________ in nature, though they are also powerless inside and overwhelmed by the world.

2. In tribes where men do the ___________, the men are highly revered. But in cultures where women do it, they are not revered.

3. Which of the writers in the Bible said that in Christ there is no male or female?

4. 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?

5. De Beauvoir notes that if a daughter challenges the system, the mother would favor the ___________.

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