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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the special ability or power of the goddesses in Book 2, Chapter 7?
(a) Maintaining relationships.
(b) Being superior to the male gods.
(c) Remaining chaste.
(d) Bearing children.

2. For the woman used as an example in Book 2, Chapter 11, what is the correlation between her relationships with men and her career success?
(a) She had a great deal of success because people were always curious about her scandalous activities.
(b) She would have had greater success if her promiscuity had not tarnished her reputation.
(c) There is no indication that her career would have been affected had she been married.
(d) She was well-respected, in part due to her stable relationships and this contributed to her success.

3. Who was the mortal man selected to settle the dispute among the goddesses?
(a) Alexander.
(b) Paris.
(c) Troy.
(d) Marcus Aurelius.

4. Who arrived with a message, regarding Persephone, for Persephone's mother?
(a) Hermes.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Hephaestus.
(d) Adonis.

5. What requires vulnerability to exist?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Healthy relationships.
(c) Healthy sex lives.
(d) Healthy intimacies.

6. Hera's husband was also her what?
(a) Uncle.
(b) Brother.
(c) Cousin.
(d) Nephew.

7. What was written on the item Eris threw?
(a) "For the gentlest."
(b) "For the strongest."
(c) "For the wisest."
(d) "For the fairest."

8. What is the second chapter about Aphrodite called?
(a) "Aphrodite and Hephaestus."
(b) "Goddess of Love and Beauty."
(c) "The Alchemical Goddess."
(d) "The Transformative Goddess."

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

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

11. How many generations of incestuous relationships are detailed in Greek mythology?
(a) Two.
(b) None.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

12. Who kidnapped Persephone?
(a) Adonis.
(b) Hephaestus.
(c) Hades.
(d) Zeus.

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

14. In Book 2, Chapter 11, the author uses what prominent female as an example?
(a) Lou Salome.
(b) Florence Nightingale.
(c) Marie Curie.
(d) Hillary Clinton.

15. Who was Hera's husband?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Adonis.
(c) Hephaestus.
(d) Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Persephone had an extramarital affair with whom?

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

3. According to the author, what is part of overcoming depression?

4. What item did Eris throw into the middle of the party?

5. The woman used as an example in Book 2, Chapter 11, had what sort of relationships with men?

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