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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. The author encourages people to seek out ______________ for the relief of the shame of holding onto a secret.
(a) Yoga.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Hypnosis.
(d) Meditation.

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

3. The information gathered during the activity that the author describes as being done so through silence and _____________.
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Predatory instincts.
(c) Invisibility.
(d) Truth.

4. What does La Lllorona mean when it is roughly translated into English?
(a) Dying Woman.
(b) Weeping Woman.
(c) Skeleton Woman.
(d) Deep Woman.

5. 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 meet Baba Yaga.
(d) They move away from the water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the biggest change in the man after he came back? He began to ____________ his wife.

2. What will happen after the time period that the man and the woman will live together? She can ____________.

3. The man begins to not show that he loves the woman, possibly heavily influenced by a conflict of __________.

4. When the man came back from his journey away from home, he returned with a number of ____________ problems.

5. What part of Baubo's body is able to speak and to converse with others in the story in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Demeter despondent in the story of herself and her daughter?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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