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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. In her moment of awakening, Sue began to touch the ___________ of her feminine life.
(a) Blood.
(b) Wound.
(c) Bounty.
(d) Crevasse.

2. Which sisters in the Sexton poem try to cut off their toes in order to make the shoe fit?
(a) Sleeping Beauty's.
(b) Mary's.
(c) Margaret's.
(d) Cinderella's.

3. Sue believes that the story of Eden is one that created ___________ geography in the world.
(a) Dirty.
(b) Uncharted.
(c) Mirrored.
(d) Wounded.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sue recognizes that she needs to forgive herself for not being born __________, a strange idea for her.

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

3. The ___________ tradition of Christian women included the idea that Jesus wanted the church to be equal and feminist.

4. Recognizing the feminine wound is important as it is the way for women to stop being ___________ in society.

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

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

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

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

6. What does Sue feel she is lacking internally that prevents her from questioning the male authority and her role in the world?

7. What does the Bible seem to say about the way in which women are made for men? What are they meant to do in their lives in service of men?

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

9. What are some of the stereotypes of being a good Christian woman, according to Sue's life?

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

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