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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Is the triggering of archetypes a good thing?
(a) Always.
(b) Often, no.
(c) Often, yes.
(d) Never.

2. 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.

3. What did Athena typically wear?
(a) Plate mail armor and a shield.
(b) Men's clothing.
(c) A beautiful white dress.
(d) A short running tunic.

4. Who helped with Athena's birth?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Hephaestus.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Hermes.

5. How was Athena born?
(a) She was delivered by Caesarian section.
(b) She was created from her brother's rib.
(c) She rose from a wave.
(d) She sprang from Zeus' forehead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Book 2, Chapter, 3 is devoted to which group of goddesses?

2. When inhabitants of a city-state left to form a new village, what did they take with them?

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

4. What is the first group of goddesses called?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What example does the author use to explain the difference in the archetypes?

2. What did Artemis ask her father for?

3. How was Athena born?

4. By what are women helped and hindered, according to Bolen?

5. What is the difference between the two types of archetypes?

6. How many years passed between the editions of Goddesses in Everywoman?

7. What are the "animus" and inner goddess, as defined by the author in Book 2, Chapter 3?

8. What was the marital situation of Artemis' mother and father?

9. What are Hestia's main characteristics?

10. What qualities does a Hestia woman possess?

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