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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the significance of the skin that the person ends up finding for the woman? It is her ________.
(a) Dream come true.
(b) Hope.
(c) Native skin.
(d) True identity.

2. The author explores the behavior of ____________ and shows the readers a variety of its functions.
(a) Love.
(b) Families.
(c) Shadowing.
(d) Therapy.

3. What did Demeter run around saying as she sunk further and further into despair?
(a) Where are you.
(b) Go.
(c) Leave me.
(d) Die! Die! Die!.

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

5. What was the biggest change in the man after he came back? He began to ____________ his wife.
(a) Frighten.
(b) Hide from.
(c) Hit.
(d) Listen to.

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

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

8. The woman asks the wolf, "If I free you, will you ________ me?" And the wolf promises that it will not.
(a) Harm.
(b) Eat.
(c) Touch.
(d) Kill.

9. Through what does Baubo see the world, as described in this story?
(a) Eyebrows.
(b) Nipples.
(c) Fingertips.
(d) Eyes.

10. Who is the God of the Underworld who hides away the daughter from the mother?
(a) Pluto.
(b) Hades.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Dormis.

11. The arrangement that the man and the woman make after she finds her skin reflect a/an ____________ assessment of the situation.
(a) Honest.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Angry.
(d) Complicated.

12. The idea is that shame and secrets, like ____________, will burn up on contact with the light of day.
(a) Vampires.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Clouds.
(d) Witches.

13. A young couple was married before the husband had to go _______________.
(a) To war.
(b) To work.
(c) To a retreat.
(d) To the lands of his family.

14. A woman in the story is forced into the __________ by some nascent, innate, and powerful force.
(a) Woods.
(b) Water.
(c) Cave.
(d) Town.

15. Unlike other animals, this woman can transform into a __________ when she is on land.
(a) Seal.
(b) Tiger.
(c) Human.
(d) Fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Women need to acknowledge and appreciate what the author calls the _____________ of women.

2. The author encourages people to seek out ______________ for the relief of the shame of holding onto a secret.

3. When the man and the woman are together, they have a few ___________ which ends up complicating things.

4. A __________ finds a wolf trapped in a trap, apparently being of human origin and able to communicate.

5. Without other companionship, the lonely man is even more keen to find a __________, so he tries to be with the woman.

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