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

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

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

4. What group of women might identify with Hera?
(a) Women who are also infertile.
(b) Women who have experienced sexual jealousy.
(c) Women who are unable to assert themselves.
(d) Women who constantly live in the shadow of their powerful husband.

5. What is the central factor of a Hera woman's life?
(a) Being a successful career woman.
(b) Being a mother.
(c) Being independent.
(d) Being a wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who decreed that the dispute between the goddesses should be settled by a mortal?

2. Why might some women feel sorry for Hera?

3. The author uses what type of woman as an example of an Aphrodite woman?

4. Where were most of Demeter's maternal energies directed?

5. Why does the author differentiate between heroines and non-heroines?

Short Essay Questions

1. What war started as a result of Eris' trick?

2. What role does grief play in the heroine's journey?

3. What is the "circle of fear"?

4. What is most important for Demeter women?

5. What constitutes the nature of a heroine?

6. What were the benefits of the arrangement that Persephone makes?

7. What did Eris do in response to the affront she received?

8. What happened to the goddesses as a result of Eris' trick?

9. What is Hera's position in the Olympian family of gods?

10. How do women often react to the story of Hera?

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