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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 gift the dying mother gives to her daughter when she is on her deathbed, telling the girl to hide it away?
(a) A small doll.
(b) Money.
(c) A wand.
(d) A book.

2. How many sisters does the strange man try to court at the same time, though he is not successful at first?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

3. Taoists call women the ____________ through which all human life emerges, whether they are male or female.
(a) Arch.
(b) Womb.
(c) Doorway.
(d) Gateway.

4. A true name is something that is often used in families in association with _______________.
(a) Dead relatives.
(b) Mysteries.
(c) Deities.
(d) Animals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Both the mother and the ___________ want the strange child to be accepted in society and in the family.

2. What was discovered about the man's past which causes the help for the sister to kill this dangerous man?

3. A new trust of ___________ helps the growing duckling have an easier time of finding shelter on his journey.

4. The shoes the girl receives later in the story are not coming directly from her __________, so they are corrupted.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does the author believe the Wild Woman archetype can do for the American woman?

7. What does the fisherman do when he brings the skeleton into his home and changes his attitude?

8. What is the problem with the dog in the story of the man who wants to marry the twin daughters?

9. Why does the young girl receive the doll in the first story from her mother?

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

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