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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the benefit, or benefits, of Persephone's agreement?
(a) She was able to diversify the Olympian bloodline.
(b) She could diversify the Olympian bloodline and still spend time with her mother.
(c) There was no benefit to her agreement.
(d) She was able to spend time with her mother.

2. What is NOT a suggestion, made by author, for ways a Demeter woman can avoid depression?
(a) Be able to set boundaries and stick to them.
(b) Nurture other goddess archetypes within herself.
(c) Become a mother but avoid marriage.
(d) Recognize and express her true emotions.

3. What is often the most important part of the heroine's journey?
(a) Surviving grief.
(b) Being successful in her chosen profession.
(c) Forming interpersonal relationships.
(d) Learning about herself.

4. What food did Persephone's kidnapper offer to her?
(a) Pomegranate seeds.
(b) Grapes.
(c) Apple.
(d) Pear.

5. Demeter is the patron goddess of what group of people?
(a) Blacksmiths.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Mothers.
(d) Soldiers.

6. What was the most powerful and influential bond in Demeter's life?
(a) The bond with her sisters.
(b) The bond with her mate.
(c) The maternal bond.
(d) The bond with her friends.

7. How do Demeter women view marriage?
(a) As a way to be spiritually united with their lover.
(b) As their ultimate goal in life.
(c) As a means to becoming a mother.
(d) As an inconvenience and a bore.

8. What sort of term is "heroine"?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Anachronistic.
(c) Semantic.
(d) Elitist.

9. Where, in a woman's personality, might the goddess archetypes operate?
(a) Above her level of awareness.
(b) At her level of awareness.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Below her level of awareness.

10. What emotions are part of Demeter's story?
(a) Devotion.
(b) A need for help.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Depression.

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

12. According to the author, what might some women like about Hera?
(a) Her unyielding commitment to her own desires.
(b) Her tenacious defense of her children.
(c) Her compassion and forgiveness.
(d) Her ability to fight with her husband instead of passively accepting her circumstances.

13. Eris wasn't invited to what kind of party?
(a) A birthday party.
(b) A baby shower.
(c) A wedding party.
(d) An anniversary dinner.

14. According to the author, what do women need to be satisfied and fulfilled?
(a) To fulfill the goals that are most important to them.
(b) To acknowledge which goddesses are present within her, and which are repressed.
(c) To keep busy and be successful, but still make time for themselves.
(d) To learn to cope with knowledge of their own shortcomings and inabilities.

15. According to the author, what is part of overcoming depression?
(a) Forming new relationships.
(b) A letting go, or renewal.
(c) Discovering fulfilling activities.
(d) Developing an understanding of oneself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique did all of the goddesses attempt to win the contest?

2. According to the author, what happens to non-heroines?

3. Aphrodite is the goddess of what kind(s) of love?

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

5. Which goddess did the mortal man select as the winner?

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