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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Women & Goddesses: Chapter 2, The Heroine in Everywoman.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the assistant help with Athena's birth?
(a) By putting Athena's mother into a deep, temporary sleep.
(b) By hitting Athena's father in the head with an axe.
(c) By pulling Athena's body from the earth.
(d) By helping to build Athena from clay.

2. What relationship is most important to an Athena woman?
(a) Her spouse.
(b) Her parents.
(c) Her siblings.
(d) Her children.

3. How is the union of Demeter and her mate described?
(a) Joyful and consensual.
(b) Neither joyful and consensual, nor a rape.
(c) The nature of their union is not specified.
(d) A rape.

4. How does the heroine appear to others?
(a) As someone who has overcome astonishing odds.
(b) Like an ordinary person.
(c) As an extraordinary person that they have trouble relating to.
(d) As a strange but compelling individual.

5. With what did Artemis help her mother?
(a) Carrying water.
(b) Cooking and household duties.
(c) Caring for her father.
(d) Her brother's birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what do women need to be satisfied and fulfilled?

2. Book 2, Chapter 1 begins with a look at the formation of what?

3. Hestia is the goddess of what?

4. Who was Hera's husband?

5. In Book 2, Chapter 11, the author compares people to what?

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