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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the first person that Sue talks to about the journey she experiences in her life?
(a) Betty.
(b) Sandy.
(c) Ann.
(d) Julie.

2. Carol P. Christ said that a woman's awakening begins with an experience of ______________ in her life.
(a) Truth.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Nothingness.
(d) Hectic energy.

3. In her moment of awakening, Sue began to touch the ___________ of her feminine life.
(a) Wound.
(b) Blood.
(c) Crevasse.
(d) Bounty.

4. What are the women in Sue's paintings and drawings missing as she begins to draw her feminine wound?
(a) Feet.
(b) Eyes.
(c) Hair.
(d) Color.

5. What prompts the beginning of a journey, according to Sue's own experience?
(a) Another woman.
(b) Death.
(c) Pain.
(d) Joy.

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

7. De Beauvoir notes that if a daughter challenges the system, the mother would favor the ___________.
(a) Father.
(b) System.
(c) Daughter.
(d) Bible.

8. Sue tries to become more ____________ with God, but the maleness of his figure begins to make her feel uncomfortable.
(a) Faithful.
(b) Belligerent.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Talkative.

9. The ___________ tradition of Christian women included the idea that Jesus wanted the church to be equal and feminist.
(a) Honor.
(b) Revolutionary.
(c) Christ-like.
(d) Mother.

10. Sue believes she has been in a deep _____________ about what the subordination of women does to them psychologically.
(a) Dream.
(b) Coma.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Longing.

11. Being _______ had always seemed vaguely limiting, confining, lacking in power, and second-class.
(a) A writer.
(b) Female.
(c) Alone.
(d) Male.

12. Sue realizes that in her life, whenever she has had a problem, she has turned to _________ for the answers.
(a) Books.
(b) Men.
(c) Women.
(d) Church.

13. The Sacred Feminine keeps a woman powerful and __________ in herself but connected to everything else in the world.
(a) Honorable.
(b) Grounded.
(c) Permissive.
(d) Truthful.

14. Mother and _________ are both the stuff out of which everything is composed, Sue realizes.
(a) Cells.
(b) Trees.
(c) Ashes.
(d) Matter.

15. Sue's declaration of intent in the beginning of the book and her journey makes her feel like a ____________.
(a) Newborn.
(b) Woman.
(c) Teen.
(d) Toddler.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sue believes that the story of Eden is one that created ___________ geography in the world.

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.

3. During the dream that Sue has about herself, who does she give birth to?

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

5. Anne Wilson Sherf notes that being born female is often equated with being born ___________ in some way.

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