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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 goddess Eris's role in women's lives?
(a) Creating discord within a woman's self, or between her and others.
(b) Helping women to understand their personal needs.
(c) Allowing women to be independent and self-sufficient.
(d) Fostering relationships between women and those closest to them.

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

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

4. According to the author, Aphrodite is most similar to what other goddess?
(a) Demeter.
(b) Persephone.
(c) Hestia.
(d) Artemis.

5. Who ordered Persephone's return?
(a) Hermes.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Hades.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Persephone's kidnapper do to her?

2. What is the special ability or power of the goddesses in Book 2, Chapter 7?

3. Why did Paris make his selection?

4. Demeter is the patron goddess of what group of people?

5. What is the first chapter about Aphrodite called?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What final arrangement was worked out between Persephone and her kidnapper?

3. What constitutes the nature of a heroine?

4. What were Aphrodite's most important relationships?

5. How did Hera and her husband meet and marry?

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

7. What happened to the goddess Eris?

8. Why are the goddesses great reminders, according to the author?

9. What are some of the characteristics of a Hera woman?

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

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