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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. 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.

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

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

4. Recognizing the feminine wound is important as it is the way for women to stop being ___________ in society.
(a) Misunderstood.
(b) Beaten.
(c) Silent.
(d) Victims.

5. What does Sue do as a child when she encounters a statue of Mary and feels drawn to it? What does she say?
(a) Mother Mine.
(b) Hail Mary.
(c) Mother of all.
(d) Goddess.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sue believes she has been in a deep _____________ about what the subordination of women does to them psychologically.

2. What does Sue mistakenly call herself when she is at the monastery and introduces herself to someone else?

3. Sue admits that she is not outwardly ___________ in her life, but she is also lacking some sort of internal structure to guide her.

4. Sue realizes she has labeled herself the __________ woman, putting male authority figures at the center of her life and accepting a secondary role.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the old woman's t-shirt say which Sue sees when she tries to envision a world which is equal?

2. What is the story that Sue's friend Betty shares with her about how a family teaches their children about the river?

3. What does Sue believe that she is because she lacks teachers to help her on her journey?

4. How does Sue feel that the scriptures in the Church are explained away, reducing the power of females?

5. How would a person describe the life of Sue Monk Kidd at this point of the book in relation to her family, profession, and religion?

6. When Ann is younger and asks why women cannot be deacons in the church, what is the answer that her Vacation Bible School teacher tell her?

7. What does Sue point out that many pregnant women apologize to their husbands for?

8. What does the Bible have to say about the womanly conditions which occur on a monthly basis?

9. What does Sue find happens to girls as they grow older and they enter into their adolescence?

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

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