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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ___________ women work in business, hold real estate, lend money, and work as scribes around the time of 2000 BCE.
(a) Inan
(b) Naditu
(c) Mittu
(d) Concubine

2. The _____________ invasions weaken the matrilineal tradition and the Dorians make patrilineal succession normative.
(a) Ethiopian
(b) Achaean
(c) Roman
(d) Iranian

3. Which area has communal marriage, according to the writings of Diodorus?
(a) Iraq
(b) Libya
(c) Israel
(d) Ethiopia

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

5. ___________ women cannot engage in business and are killed for losing their virginity before marriage, even if they were raped.
(a) Egyptian
(b) Sumerian
(c) Libyan
(d) Hebrew

Short Answer Questions

1. Diodorus of _________ writes respectfully and admiringly about women wielding power in the lands where he travels.

2. As advances in ____________ and domestication of animals clarify the male's role in reproduction, the mythological spouse gains importance.

3. Archaeology indicates that societies revere the Mother Goddess as the supreme __________.

4. Which Goddess is thought to be the inventor of agriculture, a healer, a physician, and a lawgiver?

5. One theory is that the woman's ability to produce ___________ so awes men that they worship women.

(see the answer key)

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