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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. It has been found that a girl's self esteem is lost as they _________ themselves down during their lives.
(a) Beat.
(b) Shrink.
(c) Dumb.
(d) Quiet.

2. What upsets Sue as she begins to do some research, although she does not take any action as a result?
(a) Conversations.
(b) Statistics.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Books.

3. In May, Sue attended a Journey into ____________ conference on St. Simon Island off the coast of Georgia.
(a) Wholeness.
(b) The Sacred Feminine.
(c) Power.
(d) Truth.

4. Who was at the top of the chart the visiting preacher had drawn in order to show the idea of a God-ordained family?
(a) Man.
(b) Church.
(c) God.
(d) Woman.

5. Carol P. Christ said that a woman's awakening begins with an experience of ______________ in her life.
(a) Meaning.
(b) Nothingness.
(c) Truth.
(d) Hectic energy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sue's grandmother used to call it _____________ or what Sue begins to realize women need to tell themselves.

2. What does Sue mistakenly call herself when she is at the monastery and introduces herself to someone else?

3. Which sisters in the Sexton poem try to cut off their toes in order to make the shoe fit?

4. Which child(ren) in the family at the Chatooga River is allowed to go to the edge of the water?

5. Sue did not want to believe that she could be wounded by her own ____________ as she began her journey.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the old woman's t-shirt say which Sue sees when she tries to envision a world which is equal?

2. How does Sue feel that women have become inferior in the way they think and behave, even though they are not this way naturally?

3. How does Sue begin to define the idea of patriarchy when she starts out this section of the book?

4. Why is anger something which Sue is afraid to express in her own life?

5. How does Sue define her state of being an Unambiguous Woman? What does this mean she does in relation to men?

6. How are girls expected to become less threatening when they are in school or when they are in a working environment?

7. What is Sue's daughter doing when the two men begin to make insulting comments to her in the opening pages of the book?

8. What are some of the issues women face when they enter the workforce, according to Sue Monk Kidd?

9. When Ann is younger and asks why women cannot be deacons in the church, what is the answer that her Vacation Bible School teacher tell her?

10. What does Sue do in order to symbolically cast away the old when she realizes she needs to get rid of her assumptions?

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