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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Marking Territory: The Boundaries of Rage and Forgiveness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Taoists call women the ____________ through which all human life emerges, whether they are male or female.
(a) Arch.
(b) Doorway.
(c) Gateway.
(d) Womb.

2. The young girl is sent back home with a ____________ upon a staff that harbors fire.
(a) Stone.
(b) Shell.
(c) Head.
(d) Skull.

3. What is the significance of the skin that the person ends up finding for the woman? It is her ________.
(a) Hope.
(b) Dream come true.
(c) Native skin.
(d) True identity.

4. A girl in the first story is financially poor, though she considers herself __________ since she is resourceful and ignorant of her situation.
(a) Rich.
(b) A queen.
(c) Impoverished.
(d) Blessed.

5. What does this girl make that proves her industriousness, her creativity and her self-expression?
(a) A book of prayers.
(b) A sweater.
(c) A purse.
(d) Red shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The lesson of the story is that there are times when it pays off to not be ________, whether we like this truth or not.

2. What did the skeptical rabbi who went into heaven think of the experience that he had?

3. The new shoes represent exactly what the ___________ wanted for her life, not what she necessarily wanted.

4. The duckling finds he is treated well with this new group, though it feels ____________ having received such bad treatment in the past.

5. The child hopes that her __________ will help to transform the stepmother and her stepsisters into kinder beings.

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