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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The patriarchy seems to consider and accept _______ and dependence as being natural states of being.
(a) Dominance.
(b) Submission.
(c) Blind faith.
(d) Religion.

4. 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) Dress.
(c) Makeup.
(d) Shoes.

5. What does Sue decide to burn when she makes a ritual for the way she is going to let go of her feminine wound?
(a) Her drawings.
(b) A Bible.
(c) A flower.
(d) Her bra.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sue do as a child when she encounters a statue of Mary and feels drawn to it? What does she say?

2. Who wants Sue to drop the feminist thing in order to follow what they want?

3. What was the nickname that was given to Sue as a child by her brother, according to her recollection?

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

5. A ___________ is a woman who remains internally dependent and who does not shape her identity and direction as a woman.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens the first time that Sue points out that women get a rotten deal when it comes to society?

2. How are girls expected to become less threatening when they are in school or when they are in a working environment?

3. What does Sue do in order to symbolically cast away the old when she realizes she needs to get rid of her assumptions?

4. How does Sue try to avoid dealing with the emerging realization of the Feminine Wound in this section of the book?

5. What is Sue's daughter doing when the two men begin to make insulting comments to her in the opening pages of the book?

6. Why does Sue have troubles talking with God about her problems in life?

7. How does Sue feel that women have become inferior in the way they think and behave, even though they are not this way naturally?

8. What is the dream that causes Sue Monk Kidd to question her own life and how she relates to it?

9. How does Sue define her state of being an Unambiguous Woman? What does this mean she does in relation to men?

10. What does the Bible seem to say about the way in which women are made for men? What are they meant to do in their lives in service of men?

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