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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In some versions of the story, the Skeleton Woman suffers and has her ____________ cut off.
(a) Feet.
(b) Head.
(c) Hands.
(d) Breasts.

2. What happens after the mother gives up on the duckling after her own struggles on his behalf?
(a) The mother is ostracized.
(b) The mother dies.
(c) The duckling runs away.
(d) The ducking tries to drown itself.

3. The second story in the opening section shows that it is wisest to make neither too much nor too little of _________________ experiences.
(a) Honest.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Childhood.
(d) Transformational.

4. The new shoes represent exactly what the ___________ wanted for her life, not what she necessarily wanted.
(a) Queen.
(b) Government.
(c) Devil.
(d) Mother.

5. Women are born wild, but often this gets lost or injured in the ____________ process that women encounter during childhood or as an adult.
(a) Feminizing.
(b) Maturation.
(c) Brainwashing.
(d) Civilizing.

6. The father believed the lovers would be able to persevere if they married with the _______________ kind of real love.
(a) Trusting.
(b) Enduring.
(c) Honest.
(d) Quiet.

7. When Manawee learns what he needs to know, the ______________ are waiting for him when he goes to the village.
(a) Family members.
(b) Animals.
(c) Twins.
(d) Priests.

8. The fact that the woman the child goes to see is ____________ is an indication of her independence.
(a) Single.
(b) A healer.
(c) A mother.
(d) A witch.

9. The duckling is accepted because he __________ like the others in this new group of friends.
(a) Talks.
(b) Looks.
(c) Thinks.
(d) Cries.

10. Which of the sisters decides to continue her relationship with the man in the story?
(a) Youngest.
(b) Eldest.
(c) None of them.
(d) Middle.

11. The author, in this section, blends her roles of a ______________ as well as a practicing psychologist.
(a) Woman.
(b) Doula.
(c) Mother.
(d) Storyteller.

12. The young woman becomes endangered through playing with her female siblings and by breaking the one ________ her husband had given her.
(a) Vase.
(b) Necklace.
(c) Statue.
(d) Rule.

13. Estes thinks there is deep healing when women find ways to save their ____________, as a kind of personal reclamation project.
(a) Marriages.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Souls.
(d) Bodies.

14. Who is the one standing in the way of Manawee's plans to court the woman/women that he wants to court?
(a) The father.
(b) The mother.
(c) The chief elder.
(d) The son.

15. What did the skeptical rabbi who went into heaven think of the experience that he had?
(a) He thought it was a dream.
(b) He believed that he was dead.
(c) He thought he was the chosen one.
(d) He thought he was ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes off to visit the woman/women instead of the man since he is pushed away by the father each time?

2. Natural, healthy self love and confidence are a part of the innate _____________ of females, according to the author.

3. The Wild Woman idea is one that is a ____________ view of women, rather than the weak and oppressed view.

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

5. The father wanted to be sure the younger people would learn to either _____________ the matter or to follow through.

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