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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. What prompts the beginning of a journey, according to Sue's own experience?
(a) Joy.
(b) Death.
(c) Pain.
(d) Another woman.

2. Sue realizes she has labeled herself the __________ woman, putting male authority figures at the center of her life and accepting a secondary role.
(a) Normal.
(b) Pure.
(c) Unambiguous.
(d) Ambiguous.

3. Hierarchy in the world gives rise to the Great ___________, where the feminine is not as revered as the masculine.
(a) Power.
(b) Conspiracy.
(c) Truth.
(d) Imbalance.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In tribes where men do the ___________, the men are highly revered. But in cultures where women do it, they are not revered.

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

4. De Beauvoir notes that if a daughter challenges the system, the mother would favor the ___________.

5. When a women refrains from anger, as she is supposed to do, she might end up taking refuge in _____________.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What happens the first time that Sue points out that women get a rotten deal when it comes to society?

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

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