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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. For women, many painfully kept secrets seem to include some sort of ____________, often someone did something that has a lot of shame linked to it.
(a) Double bind.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Truth.
(d) Illegal action.

2. The woman feels compassion for the wold as she is not in the position of being a __________.
(a) Mother.
(b) Leader.
(c) Cook.
(d) Hunter.

3. What was the woman instructed to bring back from one wild animal, male or female, in order to help her husband?
(a) One body hair.
(b) One eyelash.
(c) One fingernail.
(d) One bone.

4. The author explores the behavior of ____________ and shows the readers a variety of its functions.
(a) Love.
(b) Families.
(c) Shadowing.
(d) Therapy.

5. Who is the mother goddess who becomes despondent over the loss of her daughter to the Underworld god?
(a) Hades.
(b) Demeter.
(c) Estes.
(d) Persephone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens during the course of the partnership between the man and the woman?

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

3. Estes talks to the readers about rage and about having ________ with it in order to better understand it.

4. The man persuades the woman to try living with him for ___________ years without entrapping her violently.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the woman do when she finds the wolf in the trap that has been set by hunters in the area?

2. What does the father do in order to gain material wealth in his life, though it is an accident?

3. What does Estes suggest to the reader as being a helpful way to relieve the shame of holding a secret?

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

5. What does the wolf's eyelash do for the woman when she carries it around with her?

6. What is happening to the woman over the course of the time she spends with the man?

7. What does Estes mean by the idea of a double-bind when it comes to secrets kept by women?

8. What are some healthy ways to manage experience and feelings associated with events?

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

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

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