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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. The author says in Book 2, Chapter 2, that she tries to apply the archetypes to what?
(a) The lives of real women.
(b) Jungian theory.
(c) Modern religion.
(d) Psychology.

2. Why did Hera get married?
(a) Hera resisted her husband's amorous advances until he agreed to be her husband.
(b) Hera and her husband had to get married to preserve the purity of the Olympian bloodline.
(c) Hera's husband kidnapped her and forced her into marrying him.
(d) Hera's father forced her to marry her husband.

3. Who did Artemis want for her companions?
(a) Older women.
(b) Other goddesses.
(c) Young men.
(d) Nymphs.

4. Where were most of Demeter's maternal energies directed?
(a) To her only daughter.
(b) To her many children.
(c) To her nieces and nephews.
(d) To the fertility of the Earth itself.

5. What is the most powerful need for a Demeter woman?
(a) The need to nurture others.
(b) The need to create and be expressive.
(c) The need for challenge.
(d) The need for acceptance.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who ordered Persephone's return?

4. Why is it easy, according to the author, to forgive Hera for not being "able to have full control over her own husband"?

5. What term does the author use for forces of society?

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