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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Goddesses: Chapter 9, Demeter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the central factor of a Hera woman's life?
(a) Being a successful career woman.
(b) Being independent.
(c) Being a wife.
(d) Being a mother.

2. How does the author think women will feel about this set of goddesses as opposed to the last?
(a) They possess qualities that are more common in women.
(b) They are not as comfortable with men.
(c) They are a pleasurable counterweight.
(d) They are less relevant to modern women's lives.

3. The author differentiates between what two varieties of archetypes?
(a) Dominant and repressed.
(b) Active and inactive.
(c) Necessary and superfluous.
(d) Feminine and masculine.

4. Why is it easy, according to the author, to forgive Hera for not being "able to have full control over her own husband"?
(a) She had no desire to control him.
(b) Her husband is the most powerful of the Olympian gods.
(c) Her mother was also unable to fully assert herself.
(d) Her inability to have control over him is what enabled her to be more powerful in other areas.

5. For what weapon did Artemis ask her father?
(a) Bow and arrow.
(b) Mace.
(c) Sling.
(d) Spear.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Demeter women view marriage?

2. Who caused the male gods to fall in love with Hestia?

3. According to Book 2, Chapter 7, what group of women would be associated with the goddesses in the previous chapter?

4. What is described, by the author as a means of empowerment and self-care for women?

5. Where, in a woman's personality, might the goddess archetypes operate?

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