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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, how do Hestian women feel about sex?

2. The author differentiates between what two varieties of archetypes?

3. What is the first of two factors that would trouble an Athena woman whose marriage was dissolved?

4. Hestia is the goddess of what?

5. In Book 2, Chapter 1, the author states that having a baby can trigger what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one of the major characteristics of an Athena woman?

2. According to the author, why do women go into therapy?

3. Why does the author choose to contrast the goddesses in Book 2, Chapter 3?

4. What are the two types of archetypes in the universe, described by Bolen?

5. By what are women helped and hindered, according to Bolen?

6. What did Aphrodite do to Hestia?

7. What qualities does a Hestia woman possess?

8. What sort of relationship did Artemis have with her mother?

9. What example does the author use in Book 2, Chapter 1, to support her statement about the maternal instinct?

10. What did Artemis ask her father for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Through therapy, the author says that women can become more aware of the inner and outer forces, of self and society, which both help and hinder them. What are the internal forces? What are the external ones? Which forces have a greater effect? Why? Be sure to cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

Essay Topic 2

The author recommends that women develop an "internal committee" of goddesses. How is this helpful? What can women learn through this activity? What are the various ways in which this internal committee can manifest itself? Be sure to cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

Essay Topic 3

Goddesses in Everywoman is, obviously, written for women. What would change about the lessons contained in the book if it were geared toward men? What portions of the book are specifically for women, and could not be altered to suit men? Why? If the book were written for men, what gods might be used? Be sure to cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

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