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

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

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

4. Sue does not think that she should only rely on the Bible for guidance, but also on her own ____________.
(a) Family.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Soul.
(d) Husband.

5. Sandy said there was so much green in the house for the holiday season that it looked like ______________.
(a) Arbor Day.
(b) A forest.
(c) A glen.
(d) The national park.

Short Answer Questions

1. Both sexes contain the same qualities in their decision-making, but their _____________ differs.

2. Sue realizes that in her life, whenever she has had a problem, she has turned to _________ for the answers.

3. Sue tries to become more ____________ with God, but the maleness of his figure begins to make her feel uncomfortable.

4. Florence Nightingale once said that our _________ lies between pain and paralysis.

5. What is the last church that Sue attempts to join in order to find a place where her beliefs can be supported in a traditional way?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the 'Great Imbalance' that Sue defines in this section of the book in the discussion about patriarchy?

2. Why is anger something which Sue is afraid to express in her own life?

3. What are some of the issues women face when they enter the workforce, according to Sue Monk Kidd?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What causes Sue to begin to weep for weeks over the Feminine Wound which she has begun to understand?

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