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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, La Selva Subterranea: Initiation in the Underground Forest.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In another story, the woman ends up killing _______________ in order to stop the situation from ending the way it looked like it was ending.
(a) Her husband.
(b) His mother.
(c) Her children.
(d) Her mother.

2. La Mariposa, the __________ Woman, turns out to be a generously proportioned grandmother.
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Vixen.
(c) Devil.
(d) Goddess.

3. What is one of the words which could be used to describe Baubo, as she is portrayed in this story?
(a) Dour.
(b) Witty.
(c) Angry.
(d) Depressed.

4. What is the gift the dying mother gives to her daughter when she is on her deathbed, telling the girl to hide it away?
(a) A small doll.
(b) A wand.
(c) Money.
(d) A book.

5. The Wild Woman is available at every stage of _____________, whether as a mentor or a spirit within the female herself.
(a) Menopause.
(b) Education.
(c) Adulthood.
(d) Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ultimately, the story shows that an Old Woman alone can find great ____________ and joy in herself.

2. The woman was also instructed to bring back a throat hair from the Crescent Moon __________ for her husband's healing.

3. Many of life's travails, Estes says, follow the pattern of ____________, as life imitates art and art imitates life.

4. How many rabbis are taken to the Seventh Vault of the Seventh Heaven by an angel of God?

5. Through what does Baubo see the world, as described in this story?

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