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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 kind of humor did Baubo use in order to pick up the spirits of the depressed goddess?
(a) Nature.
(b) Academic.
(c) Family.
(d) Sexual.

2. A woman in the story is forced into the __________ by some nascent, innate, and powerful force.
(a) Woods.
(b) Town.
(c) Water.
(d) Cave.

3. How does the woman help the wolf after freeing it from the trap, according to the story in the chapter?
(a) Tends to its wound.
(b) Points out the hunters.
(c) She doesn't.
(d) Takes it home.

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

5. What part of Baubo's body is able to speak and to converse with others in the story in this chapter?
(a) Toes.
(b) Genitals.
(c) Hand.
(d) Face.

Short Answer Questions

1. Those that have been that light and silent know there is an ease and a kind of __________ about it.

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

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

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

5. The ________, or some other symptom, will appear soon or later, sending the woman a message that she needs to return home.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the woman respond to the actions of her partner when she is told what is to happen?

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

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

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

8. What is the idea that the author introduces to the reader which will make the stories helpful?

9. What does the man inform the woman of as they are having troubles with each other?

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

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