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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sue feels that God can not be identified with any __________ just as a dancer can not be identified with a given dance.
(a) Words.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Symbols.
(d) Truths.

2. A male priest friend tells Sue that she is ____________ her children with the things she is doing.
(a) Blessing.
(b) Helping.
(c) Disappointing.
(d) Harming.

3. What does Ariadne lower down to Theseus in order to help him get out of the labyrinth in the myth?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Thread.
(c) A spider web.
(d) Her arm.

4. What does Athens have to do every seven years as a result of a curse placed upon it? Provide seven sacrifices to __________.
(a) Zeus.
(b) Minotaurs.
(c) Hera.
(d) Circe.

5. Esther Harding says that being a __________ did not originally mean being chaste, but belonging to one's self.
(a) A maiden.
(b) Woman.
(c) Virgin.
(d) Single.

6. Where is Sue going for a speaking engagement although Sandy does not want her to go?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York.
(d) Charleston.

7. What do Sue, Better, and other women create as they are sitting in the circle of trees at Springbrook?
(a) A book.
(b) A basket.
(c) An altar.
(d) A poem.

8. When relating to Herself, a woman can attain a natural ______________ in her own life.
(a) Joy.
(b) Connectedness.
(c) Energy.
(d) Peace.

9. Sue wonders if she has the ____________ in order to plant her journey in the world.
(a) Balls.
(b) Ovaries.
(c) Stones.
(d) Guts.

10. What is the nickname Sue gives to the buffalo which she thinks she is buying as she is a kid?
(a) Joe.
(b) Bob.
(c) Billy.
(d) Mary.

11. Sue decides that it is best for her to speak about __________ as being female and male, equally.
(a) Humanity.
(b) Goddess.
(c) Church.
(d) God.

12. Who accompanies Sue on a speaking trip and performs an impromptu ritual to ask the Feminine Divine to guide and bless them?
(a) Betty.
(b) Julie.
(c) Mary.
(d) Sandy.

13. Sue believes that women need to unlearn ___________ lessons about the shame and the curse of being a woman.
(a) Their family's.
(b) God's.
(c) Their own.
(d) Christianity's.

14. Which of the goddesses needs to shed all of her clothing in order to hang on a meat hook and be resurrected again?
(a) Hera.
(b) Hecate.
(c) Inanna.
(d) Isis.

15. What can rise inside once the attachment to the confining patriarchal world dies, according to the author?
(a) New being.
(b) New mystery.
(c) New family.
(d) New life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Sue feel to be the symbol of woman's deepest center, as she reads her book?

2. When women speak truly, they speak subversively and refuse to be _________, according to Sue.

3. Which kind of animal does Ruth Ann give refuge to in the Northern Exposure episode as another character wants to hunt it?

4. Sue tells the male clergy man that they only have different visions about _____________ when she is scolded.

5. Sue remembers the quote about using one's ___________ in service of one's vision is more important than fear.

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