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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the color of the leaves as Sue walked through the forest along the path around the monastery?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Brown.
(d) Green.

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

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

4. 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) Dumb.
(c) Human.
(d) Perfect.

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

6. In tribes where men do the ___________, the men are highly revered. But in cultures where women do it, they are not revered.
(a) Weaving.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Farming.
(d) Hunting.

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

8. Who is the teacher at the charm school that Sue attends when she is a young girl?
(a) Miss Belle.
(b) Miss Manners.
(c) Miss Susie.
(d) Miss Ann.

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

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

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

12. Florence Nightingale once said that our _________ lies between pain and paralysis.
(a) Truth.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Future.
(d) Choice.

13. ___________ are said to represent regeneration, female wisdom, and power, according to Sue's research.
(a) Horses.
(b) Robins.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Doves.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When a women refrains from anger, as she is supposed to do, she might end up taking refuge in _____________.

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

3. The church seems to have a stake in orthodoxy, so the __________ people are scary to them.

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

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

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