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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does La Lllorona mean when it is roughly translated into English?
(a) Skeleton Woman.
(b) Weeping Woman.
(c) Dying Woman.
(d) Deep Woman.

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

3. 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) Marry another woman.
(c) Start a business.
(d) Write a book.

4. Animals reveal themselves and hide from their opponents with a kind of sensitivity that is common among ___________.
(a) Men.
(b) Women.
(c) Children.
(d) Witches.

5. Those that have been that light and silent know there is an ease and a kind of __________ about it.
(a) Truth.
(b) Magic.
(c) Kinship.
(d) Honesty.

6. When the man and the woman are together, they have a few ___________ which ends up complicating things.
(a) Children.
(b) Fights.
(c) Houses.
(d) Animals.

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

8. From what culture is the story of La Llorona from as told by the author in this section of the book?
(a) Italian.
(b) French.
(c) Latina.
(d) Russian.

9. It is the __________ of Baubo that ends up saving the goddess from the depths of her depression.
(a) Comedy.
(b) Toes.
(c) Body.
(d) Tears.

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

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

12. The wife continued to make efforts to show her husband __________, and was patient and persistent with him.
(a) Her smile.
(b) The children.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Affection.

13. Where does the man intend to go as he is leaving the woman and bringing their children with him?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Spain.

14. 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) His mother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her children.
(d) Her husband.

15. 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 body hair.
(c) One bone.
(d) One eyelash.

Short Answer Questions

1. Estes suggests telling your secrets or writing them down with a _______________ to help deal with them.

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

3. Who accidentally sells his/her daughter to the Devil in order to reap financial gain?

4. What is one of the words which could be used to describe Baubo, as she is portrayed in this story?

5. The power of Demeter's ___________ released her from the depression that had started to take over.

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