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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 ___________ tradition of Christian women included the idea that Jesus wanted the church to be equal and feminist.
(a) Revolutionary.
(b) Mother.
(c) Honor.
(d) Christ-like.

2. How many children does Sue Monk Kidd have as she relates in the story about her history and her background?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

3. In May, Sue attended a Journey into ____________ conference on St. Simon Island off the coast of Georgia.
(a) Power.
(b) Truth.
(c) Wholeness.
(d) The Sacred Feminine.

4. Anne Wilson Sherf notes that being born female is often equated with being born ___________ in some way.
(a) Tainted.
(b) Useless.
(c) Dirty.
(d) Boring.

5. Girls, as they grow up, seem to become _____________ in nature, though they are also powerless inside and overwhelmed by the world.
(a) Fatigued.
(b) Bored.
(c) Motherly.
(d) Perfectionistic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the color of the journal Sue begins when she feels as though she needs to cast away the old in order to make way for the new?

3. Womanhood is seen as being too _________ for patriarchal religion, according to Sue.

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

5. What are the women in Sue's paintings and drawings missing as she begins to draw her feminine wound?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are some of the ways in which snakes have been interpreted in other readings, besides being evil in the Garden of Eden?

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

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

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

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

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

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