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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author encourages people to seek out ______________ for the relief of the shame of holding onto a secret.
(a) Psychoanalysis.
(b) Hypnosis.
(c) Yoga.
(d) Meditation.

2. What happened as Demeter shouted out and her depression become greater and greater?
(a) The stars blew out.
(b) The winds picked up.
(c) Summer came.
(d) Winter came.

3. What did the old woman do with the hair once the woman brought it back to her?
(a) Made the woman eat it.
(b) Ate it.
(c) Threw it in the fire.
(d) Put it in a potion.

4. The wife began to find herself bringing the husband _____________ when he decided to start sleeping outside.
(a) A tent.
(b) A dog.
(c) Blankets.
(d) Food.

5. What will happen after the time period that the man and the woman will live together? She can ____________.
(a) Disappear.
(b) Become a full human.
(c) Go home.
(d) Leave her children with him.

6. Who decides to return to the home on land in order to live with the father?
(a) Wife and son.
(b) Wife.
(c) Son.
(d) Daughter.

7. Who is the daughter of the goddess, the one who is swept away to the Underworld and hidden away?
(a) Hades.
(b) Demeter.
(c) Estes.
(d) Persephone.

8. What was the woman instructed to bring back from one wild animal, male or female, in order to help her husband?
(a) One fingernail.
(b) One bone.
(c) One eyelash.
(d) One body hair.

9. To whom did the wife go in order to find out how to help her husband with his problems?
(a) Baba Yaga.
(b) A healer.
(c) Her mother.
(d) His mother.

10. Estes refers to a woman's natural creative powers as __________ that nourishes the woman and sustains her.
(a) A light.
(b) A child.
(c) A river.
(d) A purpose

11. Estes introduces the idea of projective _________________, a psychotherapy term about the receptiveness of a patient to stories.
(a) Interpretation.
(b) Subjectivity.
(c) Identification.
(d) Objectivity.

12. What does the man go off to the native country in order to do, leaving the woman alone in their former home?
(a) Live with his parents.
(b) Write a book.
(c) Marry another woman.
(d) Start a business.

13. Women need to acknowledge and appreciate what the author calls the _____________ of women.
(a) Ovarios.
(b) Pathos.
(c) Torios.
(d) Psyches.

14. When the man came back from his journey away from home, he returned with a number of ____________ problems.
(a) Family.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Financial.

15. What part of Baubo's body is able to speak and to converse with others in the story in this chapter?
(a) Toes.
(b) Face.
(c) Hand.
(d) Genitals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Estes shares a story about a woman whose husband committed suicide and ____________ began to treat the woman badly.

2. The author explores the behavior of ____________ and shows the readers a variety of its functions.

3. Which animal does the author use as a metaphor in order to discuss the answer to #163 in this chapter?

4. Estes talks to the readers about rage and about having ________ with it in order to better understand it.

5. It is the __________ of Baubo that ends up saving the goddess from the depths of her depression.

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