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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. ____________ is being raped and disregarded and the church stands aloof, seeing matter as inherently evil.
(a) Faith.
(b) Childhood.
(c) Nature.
(d) Honor.

2. What does Sue take from the forest in order to create a symbol of herself beginning to hatch her own life?
(a) Nest.
(b) Bird.
(c) Feather.
(d) Egg.

3. During the dream that Sue has about herself, who does she give birth to?
(a) Ann.
(b) The planet Earth.
(c) Herself.
(d) Her husband.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sandy said there was so much green in the house for the holiday season that it looked like ______________.

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

3. To name, Sue says, is to define and to shape __________ in one's life, according to her lessons.

4. Sue did not want to believe that she could be wounded by her own ____________ as she began her journey.

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Sue begin to define the idea of patriarchy when she starts out this section of the book?

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