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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rots away after the Skeleton Woman is killed or brutally injured, depending on the version of the story?
(a) Her smile.
(b) Her soul.
(c) Her flesh.
(d) Her clothing.

2. What is the quest the girl is sent off to complete in order to hopefully perish if the stepfamily has anything to say about it?
(a) Find food for the winter.
(b) Rekindle the family hearth.
(c) Kill a deer.
(d) Get wood.

3. The author is drawn to the idea of the Wild Woman because of the way she has been draw to her favorite animal, the ___________.
(a) Wolf.
(b) Cat.
(c) Eagle.
(d) Tiger.

4. The father believed the lovers would be able to persevere if they married with the _______________ kind of real love.
(a) Enduring.
(b) Honest.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Trusting.

5. What was discovered about the man's past which causes the help for the sister to kill this dangerous man?
(a) The man killed his past wives.
(b) The man was a ghost.
(c) The man was the Devil.
(d) The man was going to leave the sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Wild Woman is available at every stage of _____________, whether as a mentor or a spirit within the female herself.

2. The duckling is accepted because he __________ like the others in this new group of friends.

3. Who eventually finds the Skeleton Woman, though he is not necessarily pleased with this discovery?

4. Women are born wild, but often this gets lost or injured in the ____________ process that women encounter during childhood or as an adult.

5. A kind of _________ emerges from the new shoes, making what had become the girl's release into some sort of prison.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after the duckling decides to run away from his family? How is he saved?

2. How is the girl who is poor actually someone who is rich, according to the author as the story is told?

3. What does Estes suggest about the female body and what it might be capable of doing?

4. What are some of the ways in which Estes believes that women's bodies have been attacked?

5. What is the quest the stepmother and sisters send the young girl off on, hoping that she will never return?

6. What do the others do when it's clear that one of the eggs in a bunch is not the same as the others?

7. Why do the Taoists call women the gateway, according to the author's writing in this section of the book?

8. How does the man eventually learn about the twin daughters that he wants to marry, though he cannot be near them?

9. What seems to be the purpose of the father's request in the story of the man, the twins, and the father?

10. What is Vasilisa sent home with in order to help start the fire at the house where she lives with her family?

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