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

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) There is no indication that her career would have been affected had she been married.
(c) She would have had greater success if her promiscuity had not tarnished her reputation.
(d) She was well-respected, in part due to her stable relationships and this contributed to her success.

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

4. Aphrodite's husband was the god of what skill?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Smithing.
(d) Archery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Hera get married?

2. People who make intentional choices with regard to self-sacrifice usually do so because of what concern(s)?

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

4. According to the author, what do the goddesses in Book 2, Chapter 7, learn?

5. In Book 2, Chapter 11, the author uses what prominent female as an example?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author use a fiction novel as an example to illustrate her concept of the heroine?

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

3. How many chapters are devoted to Aphrodite?

4. How was Demeter different from the other goddesses?

5. What recommendations does the author make for avoiding and overcoming depression?

6. What happened to the goddess Eris?

7. What was Demeter's family situation?

8. What does the author say about the "special woman" in Book 2, Chapter 11?

9. What is the "circle of fear"?

10. Aside from her mother and her husband, what was Persephone's other major relationship?

(see the answer keys)

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