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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the girl have to do in order to get what she came to the old woman for?
(a) Kill her sisters.
(b) Perform 8 tasks.
(c) Get the hair from the dog.
(d) Give up her doll.

2. The Wild Woman idea is one that is a ____________ view of women, rather than the weak and oppressed view.
(a) Positive.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Negative.
(d) Englightened.

3. When girls grow up, they receive an enormous education, according to the author, on how to deal with ____________.
(a) Teachers.
(b) Society.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

4. A kind of _________ emerges from the new shoes, making what had become the girl's release into some sort of prison.
(a) Soul.
(b) Curse.
(c) Promise.
(d) Spirit.

5. What happens after the Skeleton Woman is destroyed by the monster in her life?
(a) She sinks to the bottom of the body of water.
(b) She is buried in a field.
(c) She disappears.
(d) She floats in the water.

6. Women are born wild, but often this gets lost or injured in the ____________ process that women encounter during childhood or as an adult.
(a) Maturation.
(b) Feminizing.
(c) Civilizing.
(d) Brainwashing.

7. The tendency of the young girl towards _______________ is in an effort to be treated properly and better through pleasing others.
(a) Obedience.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Cruelty.

8. The author, in this section, blends her roles of a ______________ as well as a practicing psychologist.
(a) Storyteller.
(b) Mother.
(c) Woman.
(d) Doula.

9. How many rabbis are taken to the Seventh Vault of the Seventh Heaven by an angel of God?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

10. The young woman becomes endangered through playing with her female siblings and by breaking the one ________ her husband had given her.
(a) Rule.
(b) Vase.
(c) Necklace.
(d) Statue.

11. One day, the duckling dares to approach some other water ____________, finding they are friendly.
(a) Fish.
(b) Vermin.
(c) Fowl.
(d) Mammals.

12. Ultimately, the story shows that an Old Woman alone can find great ____________ and joy in herself.
(a) Appreciation.
(b) Power.
(c) Mysteries.
(d) Truth.

13. The author looks into how the wild woman _____________ can serve a healing function for women who have been oppressed.
(a) Story.
(b) Religion.
(c) Dyad.
(d) Archetype.

14. Taoists call women the ____________ through which all human life emerges, whether they are male or female.
(a) Arch.
(b) Womb.
(c) Doorway.
(d) Gateway.

15. One of the most profound changes in a female's adult life is the discovery of the power of ___________.
(a) Partnership.
(b) Motherhood.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Fertility.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sisters does the strange man try to court at the same time, though he is not successful at first?

2. What rots away after the Skeleton Woman is killed or brutally injured, depending on the version of the story?

3. Who goes off to visit the woman/women instead of the man since he is pushed away by the father each time?

4. ______________, the author says, also face troubles with fitting in at more than one phase of life.

5. Who does the sister cry out to in order to help her escape from the man who seems to have dangerous tendencies?

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