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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Which sisters in the Sexton poem try to cut off their toes in order to make the shoe fit?
(a) Sleeping Beauty's.
(b) Mary's.
(c) Cinderella's.
(d) Margaret's.

3. The church seems to have a stake in orthodoxy, so the __________ people are scary to them.
(a) Independent-minded.
(b) Closed minded.
(c) Female.
(d) Childish.

4. What is Sue's daughter stocking when the incident with the men takes place in the beginning of the book?
(a) Milk.
(b) Soup.
(c) Toothpaste.
(d) Chocolates.

5. Sue feels that teenage girls begin to change in those years, sleeping _________ and seeing fitful glimpses of fearful truth.
(a) Quietly.
(b) Deeply.
(c) Lightly.
(d) Numbly.

6. Who was called the second in creation and the first to sin in the teachings of Sue's Baptist upbringing?
(a) Mary.
(b) Eve.
(c) Lilith.
(d) Adam.

7. What is NOT one of the things that Sue Monk Kidd says that women will encounter in the workforce?
(a) Traditional assumptions.
(b) Ceilings.
(c) Promotions.
(d) Networks.

8. Girls, as they grow up, seem to become _____________ in nature, though they are also powerless inside and overwhelmed by the world.
(a) Bored.
(b) Perfectionistic.
(c) Fatigued.
(d) Motherly.

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

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

11. Sue believes that the story of Eden is one that created ___________ geography in the world.
(a) Mirrored.
(b) Uncharted.
(c) Wounded.
(d) Dirty.

12. 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.
(a) Honored.
(b) Human.
(c) Perfect.
(d) Dumb.

13. Who does not want Sue to go to a planned retreat at a monastery when she is struggling with her emotions?
(a) Sandy.
(b) Ann.
(c) Mary.
(d) Sue.

14. What is the thing that Sue immersed herself in, even though she actually disliked doing this?
(a) Writing.
(b) Baking.
(c) Singing.
(d) Dancing.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In her moment of awakening, Sue began to touch the ___________ of her feminine life.

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

4. Sue believes that like the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz," patriarchal society's heart is being cut away by a ____________.

5. What do the women in the women's consciousness-raising group in the movie explore with a mirror?

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