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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. Who accidentally sells his/her daughter to the Devil in order to reap financial gain?
(a) King.
(b) Father.
(c) Mother.
(d) Queen.

2. The idea is that shame and secrets, like ____________, will burn up on contact with the light of day.
(a) Clouds.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Witches.
(d) Vampires.

3. What happens during the course of the partnership between the man and the woman?
(a) Their house burns down.
(b) They have a child.
(c) They move away from the water.
(d) They meet Baba Yaga.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the woman think that she needed to bring back the throat hair to the person who she asked for help?

2. Women need to acknowledge and appreciate what the author calls the _____________ of women.

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

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

5. What happened as Demeter shouted out and her depression become greater and greater?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the image of Baubo in the story that is chosen for the reader in this chapter?

2. What happened to the world when Demeter's depression became destructive?

3. What didn't the parents of the dead husband want to admit to themselves, so they were cruel to the widow?

4. What was the quest the wife was sent on by the older woman healer in the town, upon hearing of the woman's plight?

5. What was the problem when the husband went off to war and then did not come back for a few years?

6. What is different about the woman who is portrayed in the story at the start of this section?

7. What is the relationship between the man and the woman in the story called the Weeping Woman?

8. What does the author explain the seal skin is in the context of this story and in the context of women as a whole?

9. What happens when the Weeping Woman ends up at the Gates of Heaven in the story in this section?

10. What is the original deal that the man and the special women strike up in order to be together?

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