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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many of life's travails, Estes says, follow the pattern of ____________, as life imitates art and art imitates life.
(a) Painting.
(b) Drawing.
(c) Sculpting.
(d) Theatre.

2. The main story in this section is about a man who is ______________ and then he finds a woman.
(a) Shopping at the market.
(b) Lonely.
(c) A demon.
(d) A soldier.

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

4. The woman is a _______-woman in this story, which makes her unique and different from other women.
(a) Seal.
(b) Fish.
(c) Bird.
(d) Tiger.

5. In one version of the story, the woman attacks the man, hurting him emotionally to conform to the _____________.
(a) Government policies.
(b) Social order.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Legalities of common law marriages.

6. What kind of humor did Baubo use in order to pick up the spirits of the depressed goddess?
(a) Sexual.
(b) Family.
(c) Nature.
(d) Academic.

7. A woman and a man are in love with each other and they are with each other, but they are not ____________.
(a) Married.
(b) A true family.
(c) Living with each other.
(d) A connected soul group.

8. Who pointed out to this person who sold the daughter away that it was an agreement made with the Devil?
(a) The wife.
(b) The King.
(c) The Queen.
(d) The husband.

9. Estes suggests telling your secrets or writing them down with a _______________ to help deal with them.
(a) Piece of chalk.
(b) Happier ending.
(c) Twig.
(d) Therapist.

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

11. Baubo is a grown woman's ________ as visualized in the context of the story in this chapter.
(a) Torso.
(b) Head.
(c) Arm.
(d) Leg.

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

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

14. Who ends up finding the woman's original skin, the skin she has been missing since her marriage?
(a) Daughter.
(b) Son.
(c) Sister.
(d) Spouse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman was directed to head for the forest in order to renew her __________ so she could begin again.

2. In another story, the woman ends up killing _______________ in order to stop the situation from ending the way it looked like it was ending.

3. Estes says that mentally and emotionally, people may suffer from areas where they lack _____________.

4. The information gathered during the activity that the author describes as being done so through silence and _____________.

5. What will happen after the time period that the man and the woman will live together? She can ____________.

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