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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. Estes says that mentally and emotionally, people may suffer from areas where they lack _____________.
(a) Secrets.
(b) Truth.
(c) Feeling.
(d) Anger.

2. Estes shares a story about a woman whose husband committed suicide and ____________ began to treat the woman badly.
(a) Their daughter.
(b) His family.
(c) Their son.
(d) Her family.

3. The main story in this section is about a man who is ______________ and then he finds a woman.
(a) Lonely.
(b) A demon.
(c) A soldier.
(d) Shopping at the market.

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

5. The man begins to not show that he loves the woman, possibly heavily influenced by a conflict of __________.
(a) Values.
(b) Children.
(c) Spirits.
(d) Families.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what culture is the story of La Llorona from as told by the author in this section of the book?

2. Estes introduces the idea of projective _________________, a psychotherapy term about the receptiveness of a patient to stories.

3. Many of life's travails, Estes says, follow the pattern of ____________, as life imitates art and art imitates life.

4. What is the significance of the skin that the person ends up finding for the woman? It is her ________.

5. The arrangement that the man and the woman make after she finds her skin reflect a/an ____________ assessment of the situation.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are some of the lessons that women can learn from animals in their life?

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

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

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

6. Why did the husband begin to sleep outside after he came home from war?

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

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

9. How does this image of Baubo relate to the world in terms of speaking and seeing the world?

10. What did the older woman healer do with the hair once the wife returned from her journey with it?

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