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

2. The woman used as an example in Book 2, Chapter 11, had what sort of relationships with men?
(a) She had intimacies but never married.
(b) She was married and divorced several times.
(c) She was happily married for many years.
(d) She was a feminist who hated men.

3. Why might some women feel sorry for Hera?
(a) Her daughter was taken from her.
(b) She was unable to have children.
(c) She was constantly wronged by her husband.
(d) She fell in love with a mortal but could not have him.

4. How does the heroine appear to others?
(a) As an extraordinary person that they have trouble relating to.
(b) Like an ordinary person.
(c) As someone who has overcome astonishing odds.
(d) As a strange but compelling individual.

5. When presented with the reality of her situation, Persephone agreed to do what?
(a) Live with her mother.
(b) Return to Olympus.
(c) Marry her kidnapper.
(d) Become a mortal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What requires vulnerability to exist?

2. Eris is the Greek goddess of what?

3. Aphrodite is the goddess of what kind(s) of love?

4. Who fought over the item that Eris tossed into the party?

5. What is the central factor of a Hera woman's life?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Aphrodite is the goddess of what?

3. What happened to the goddess Eris?

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

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

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

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

8. How was Demeter different from the other goddesses?

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

10. How many chapters are devoted to Aphrodite?

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