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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 animal does Sue feel to be the symbol of woman's deepest center, as she reads her book?
(a) Unicorn.
(b) Turtle.
(c) Bird.
(d) Horse.

2. What do Betty and Sue begin to dig up which they later realize to be symbolic of their journey?
(a) A statue.
(b) A letter.
(c) Tree stump.
(d) Rocks.

3. Esther Harding says that being a __________ did not originally mean being chaste, but belonging to one's self.
(a) Single.
(b) A maiden.
(c) Woman.
(d) Virgin.

4. In her isolation, Sue begins to say goodbye to the __________ she has been as she realizes she must.
(a) Woman.
(b) Daughter.
(c) Writer.
(d) Mother.

5. What does Sue buy in order to remind her of the power of buffalos in her life?
(a) A feather.
(b) A book.
(c) Buffalo nickel.
(d) A tuft of hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accompanies Sue on a speaking trip and performs an impromptu ritual to ask the Feminine Divine to guide and bless them?

2. What is in the dream of Sue has that she awakens from feeling reunited with this lost and defiled symbol of feminine instinct?

3. The _______________ of Meinrad Craighead reminds Sue of the Cartoon of St. Anne, when she and Betty visit.

4. Which animals does Sue find to be very sacred and powerful for women, according to her research into the Lakota?

5. What is a kernos stone, according to Sue's research and experience when she is in Crete?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Betty and Sue begin to dig up two stumps? What do they find they have done?

2. Why does Sue begin to realize that attachment to the confining patriarchal world must die?

3. What does a Cherokee woman Sue meets on a retreat tell her that her dreams are meant to do?

4. Who are the "kjerringsleppet" that Sue recalls in her writing in this section?

5. While she plans many rituals, Sue does not realize that these rituals serve a purpose in her journey? What do these rituals do?

6. What does the picture of Sappho have to tell Sue, although the other pictures in the museum do not affect her in the same way?

7. What does Sue plant in her backyard in order to create a space for being with the Divine Feminine?

8. When Sandy and Sue come upon a large stone circle in Avebury, what does the guide book say it represents?

9. What does Sue see in a magazine as the plane is beginning to descend from the sky and she wishes she could disappear into that image?

10. What does Sue see to be a sacred place when she visits and sees a replica of Da Vinci's Cartoon of St. Anne?

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