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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Goddesses: Chapter 11, The Alchemical Goddess- Aphrodite.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role do the goddesses in Book 2, Chapter 7, play?
(a) Lover.
(b) Any combination of the three.
(c) Wife.
(d) Mother.

2. How did Hestia respond to the advances of the male gods?
(a) She rejected them both.
(b) She accepted both and split her time evenly between them.
(c) She rejected the first and accepted the second.
(d) She accepted the first and rejected the second.

3. According to Cook 2, Chapter 2, the goddess archetypes are at work where?
(a) Only in the cultures where they originated.
(b) Nowhere, because they are archaic.
(c) Only in the women who recognize them.
(d) In every woman and in every culture.

4. What was Persephone's stipulation for her agreement?
(a) She must be allowed to have relationships outside of marriage.
(b) She must not be required to marry her kidnapper.
(c) She cannot be trapped in the Underworld.
(d) She must not be required to bear children.

5. When presented with the reality of her situation, Persephone agreed to do what?
(a) Become a mortal.
(b) Return to Olympus.
(c) Live with her mother.
(d) Marry her kidnapper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the benefit, or benefits, of Persephone's agreement?

2. What is the main subject of Book 2?

3. According to the author, how do Hestian women feel about sex?

4. Who was Hera's husband?

5. What is the second of two factors that would trouble an Athena woman whose marriage was dissolved?

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