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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 is the other name of the Wolf Woman, as portrayed in the initial story in this book?
(a) La Lova.
(b) La loca.
(c) La Loba.
(d) La Lita.

2. Who caused the Skeleton Woman to brutally suffer during the course of her life?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) No one.
(d) Her brother.

3. What are the rabbis shown when they are in the Seventh Heaven, as led by the angel?
(a) Jacob's Ladder.
(b) The Ten Commandments.
(c) God.
(d) Ezekiel's Wheel.

4. The new shoes match her true ___________ of the original shoes and life plan color, but their form represents something else.
(a) Memory.
(b) Color.
(c) Shade.
(d) Material.

5. When the duckling happens to see his reflection in the water, what does he find that he is now?
(a) A swan.
(b) A human.
(c) A dog.
(d) A butterfly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes off to visit the woman/women instead of the man since he is pushed away by the father each time?

2. La Mariposa, the __________ Woman, turns out to be a generously proportioned grandmother.

3. 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?

4. An Old Woman alone can find she holds within herself incredible abilities of _________________.

5. Estes points out there are nasty _____________ methods designed to reduce body love and self confidence.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the rumor that goes around about the man with the strange appearance?

2. How does the author define the idea of a feral woman in this chapter of the book?

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

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

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

6. What happens to the Skeleton Woman as she is being dragged behind the boat of the fisherman?

7. What does the story propose as a challenge to the man who wants to marry his twin daughters?

8. What is peculiar about the man who is the focal point of the first story in this section?

9. What does Estes say about her relationship with the Wild Woman archetype? How was she drawn to the archetype?

10. How does the duckling come to find out that he is actually a swan rather than being like his brothers and sisters?

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