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

2. What is NOT a suggestion, made by author, for ways a Demeter woman can avoid depression?
(a) Become a mother but avoid marriage.
(b) Recognize and express her true emotions.
(c) Be able to set boundaries and stick to them.
(d) Nurture other goddess archetypes within herself.

3. What is the second chapter about Aphrodite called?
(a) "Goddess of Love and Beauty."
(b) "Aphrodite and Hephaestus."
(c) "The Transformative Goddess."
(d) "The Alchemical Goddess."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Hera's husband?

2. What technique did all of the goddesses attempt to win the contest?

3. According to the author, what happens to non-heroines?

4. Who was the mortal man selected to settle the dispute among the goddesses?

5. How many consorts did Demeter's mate have before her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How many chapters are devoted to Aphrodite?

4. What was Demeter's family situation?

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

6. What happened when Persephone was kidnapped?

7. What is the chief characteristic of the vulnerable goddesses?

8. What constitutes the nature of a heroine?

9. How was Demeter different from the other goddesses?

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

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