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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Both the mother and the ___________ want the strange child to be accepted in society and in the family.

2. Women are born wild, but often this gets lost or injured in the ____________ process that women encounter during childhood or as an adult.

3. The story at the start of this section begins with a strange ____________ which causes others to guess what it is.

4. What has the family not mastered, which is why the young girl is sent out on her quest, a common one for the time period?

5. Who caused the Skeleton Woman to brutally suffer during the course of her life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the ways in which Estes believes that women's bodies have been attacked?

2. What do the others do when it's clear that one of the eggs in a bunch is not the same as the others?

3. What is the overall purpose of the story of La Loba of the American Southwest as Estes explains in the first section?

4. What does the fisherman do when he brings the skeleton into his home and changes his attitude?

5. What is wrong with the shoes that the girl receives later on in the story?

6. Why does the man with the strange feature want the three sisters to do with him?

7. Why does the young girl receive the doll in the first story from her mother?

8. What does the author suggest to be one of the most profound changes in a female's adult life?

9. What does the story propose as a challenge to the man who wants to marry his twin daughters?

10. What is Vasilisa sent home with in order to help start the fire at the house where she lives with her family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author suggests many people use relationships in order to cope with other things which have happened in their lives.

Part 1: Why do you think people use relationships to cope with their past?

Part 2: How do you think you use relationships in your own life? Why?

Part 3: Do you think it's a good idea to use a relationship to heal yourself? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The idea of the heroine's journey is one which plays out again and again in this manuscript, showing the reader that one struggles in order to win.

Part 1: Why do you think that the journey story seems to be the same again and again?

Part 2: How do you think a person might be changed after enduring a heroine's journey?

Part 3: Do you think that your life is a heroine's or hero's journey? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

The idea of the Wild Woman is one that the author introduces in this book as being the state a woman should try to reclaim.

Part 1: Why do you think the idea of a Wild Woman is so important?

Part 2: Do you agree that the idea of a Wild Woman is one which a woman should strive for? Why or why not?

Part 3: How do you think you might become a Wild Woman (even if you are a man)?

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