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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ___________ is used to symbolize what is an essential property that vitalizes inert materials into life when combined with them in just the right way.
(a) Fog.
(b) Light.
(c) Water.
(d) Paint.

2. 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) True identity.
(d) Native skin.

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

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

5. Where does the woman end up looking for the souls of her children, as directed by the saint?
(a) Mountains.
(b) Forest.
(c) Church.
(d) River.

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

13. Estes talks to the readers about rage and about having ________ with it in order to better understand it.
(a) Breakfast.
(b) Dinner.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Tea.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What part of Baubo's body is able to speak and to converse with others in the story in this chapter?

4. Over time the bear was able to feel __________ enough to enjoy the food offerings from the woman.

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

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