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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the weaker brother or husband to the Egyptian Goddess Isis?
(a) Irison
(b) Menaleus
(c) Luxor
(d) Osiris

2. Who is the first prophet of Yahweh, who arrives thousands of years after the Goddess emerges in history?
(a) Abraham
(b) Jesus
(c) Joseph
(d) Solomon

3. Love poems found hint that ____________ women were the ones who did the wooing in relationships, according to Stone.
(a) Egyptians
(b) Greek
(c) Libyan
(d) Roman

4. It appears that the critical element is matrilineal descent of name and ___________ rather than women in power.
(a) Property
(b) Crops
(c) Paper
(d) Lovers

5. The _____________ Goddess resuscitates her mate, proving she is the ultimate source of life and regeneration.
(a) Mesopotamian
(b) Greek
(c) Egyptian
(d) Sumerian

Short Answer Questions

1. _____________ is the name given by scholars to Cretan cultural sites on the Greek mainland.

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

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

4. Robertson Smith claims the Semitic religion results from the juxtaposition of ___________ worship and a female kinship system.

5. Stories about the Goddesses were hardly the innocent childlike ____________ that many stories of them have become.

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