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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. What is the second chapter about Aphrodite called?

2. Who ordered Persephone's return?

3. The author states that Aphrodite helps people come closer to what state?

4. The "circle of fear" that the author refers to associates vulnerability with what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Demeter's family situation?

2. What is most important for Demeter women?

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

4. How many chapters are devoted to Aphrodite?

5. What happened to the goddess Eris?

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

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

8. Aphrodite is the goddess of what?

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

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

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 points out that the maternal instinct can be triggered by one's own baby and by other women's babies; however, it is also possible to give birth to a baby and not feel maternal affection. How is the maternal instinct triggered? Is there a difference between the way a woman feels about another woman's baby and the way she feels about her own? Why don't some women have that instinct with their biological children? Be sure to cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

Essay Topic 3

Women have many different roles is modern society - worker, mother, wife, daughter, etc. Which of the goddesses are most closely associated with each of these roles? How can the goddess archetypes help women to better handle these roles? Be sure to cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

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