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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 requires vulnerability to exist?

2. What was Persephone's stipulation for her agreement?

3. Persephone had an extramarital affair with whom?

4. What role do the goddesses in Book 2, Chapter 7, play?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do women often react to the story of Hera?

2. What is the "circle of fear"?

3. According to the author, how does a heroine handle self-sacrifice?

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

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

6. What constitutes the nature of a heroine?

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

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

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

10. Aphrodite is the goddess of what?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Artemis displays a rather constant preference for females, while Athena is almost always in the company of men or boys. Why is this so? What is the difference in the ways the two goddesses relate to men? What do they have in common? What information can we gather about the personalities of the two goddesses as a result of their relationships with men? Be sure to cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the virgin goddesses. What are their defining characteristics? What do they all have in common? What makes them different from one another? Which types of women identify with each goddess? Be sure to cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

Essay Topic 3

Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, does not have much space devoted to her in the book, but the author points out that she also plays a role in women's lives. What is Eris's influence on women's lives? What situations might she be involved with? How can women relate to the Eris archetype and learn to minimize her influence in their lives? Be sure to cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

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