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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ___________ is just another attempt at explaining human existence - yet Western civilization accepts this contrived myth as history.
(a) The multiplication of the bread and the wine
(b) Genesis
(c) The Prodigal Son
(d) Star Goddess

2. The Bhagavad-Gita shows ______ bringing culture and light to aborigines who are called demons if they refuse and monkeys or bears if they accept.
(a) Andu
(b) Rama
(c) Isis
(d) Indra

3. The _______________ tablets from the same region of the world as the Genesis story tell a different creation story with the woman as the positive part of the story.
(a) Hittite
(b) Roman
(c) Sumerian
(d) Hebrew

4. Stone's question is: What affect does worshiping a female deity and living in a _________ society have on women?
(a) Peaceful
(b) Warring
(c) Complicated
(d) Matriarchal

5. Robertson Smith claims that in Arabia, all traits of the dominant Goddess are transferred to the _____________ before she is subordinated.
(a) Land
(b) God
(c) Male
(d) Child

Short Answer Questions

1. ___________ women cannot engage in business and are killed for losing their virginity before marriage, even if they were raped.

2. ___________ figures are everywhere: in fire sacrifices, astral bodies, lightning, skin color, and some of the gods - Brahma, Mithra, and Dyaus Pitar.

3. The _________ regard themselves as racially superior to the conquered peoples which helps to explain other texts.

4. Some priestesses act as _______, providing military and political advice to royalty, though the men begin to outnumber them.

5. Women lose ground in Mesopotamia as the _________ goddesses are relegated to the role of consorts to particular gods.

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