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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 newly awakened woman is a _______ transplanted into hostile soil, until it finds ground in a circle of trees.
(a) Stone.
(b) Leaf.
(c) Seed.
(d) Sapling.

2. Maya Angelou says that no matter what people will do to her, "like air, ____________" in one of her many poems.
(a) I'll drift away.
(b) I'll sigh.
(c) I'll float.
(d) I'll rise.

3. What does Sue encounter when she stays at her bed and breakfast in complete isolation from others?
(a) Awful abyss.
(b) White light.
(c) Black memory.
(d) True depth.

4. Sue believes that women need to unlearn ___________ lessons about the shame and the curse of being a woman.
(a) Their family's.
(b) Their own.
(c) Christianity's.
(d) God's.

5. ____________ must be unfrozen in order to participate in the Divine in new ways, according to Sue.
(a) Scriptures.
(b) Words.
(c) Bibles.
(d) Symbols.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sue adds the figurine to her altar, she begins to wonder why __________ is nearly deleted from Christianity.

2. What do Sue, Better, and other women create as they are sitting in the circle of trees at Springbrook?

3. What is the note on the replica which Sandy gives to Sue of the Minoan woman playing a lyre made of snakes?

4. What is the name of Sue's African-American nanny who takes care of her while she is growing up?

5. What does Sue have done in relation to her face when she is out in Crete with Terry during her trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the news in the old newspaper clipping that Sue's mom sends?

2. What does Sue long for in her own marriage at this point of her journey to the Sacred Feminine?

3. Why does the Goddess Hera take an annual bath at Kanathos, according to Sue's findings?

4. What does Maya Angelou say in an interview which makes Sue begin to understand empowerment?

5. What does Sue do in order to cultivate her own creativity and to create space for it in her life?

6. What does Sue take and then give an offering of another buffalo head nickel to balance the gift when she goes to see the buffaloes?

7. 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?

8. What happens when Sue begins to think about the idea of polluted waters and the dolphins swimming in them?

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

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

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