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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. The church seems to have a stake in orthodoxy, so the __________ people are scary to them.
(a) Childish.
(b) Closed minded.
(c) Independent-minded.
(d) Female.

2. 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.

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

4. 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) Walked in her sleep.
(d) Dreamt.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. One must work hard to have one's energy flow towards _____________, Sue finds.

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

4. A Vacation Bible School teacher tells ___________ that women can not be deacons because men are put at the head.

5. When Sue begins to realize that the Church is causing her to be less than a person, she asks the question, "God, how ________?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. What are the differences between men and women as pointed out in the section called, "Spirit Over Nature?"

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

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

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