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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of Sumerian writing allows the historians of the day to be able to find literature that was written about history?
(a) Cuneiform
(b) Block
(c) Astrological
(d) Numerological

2. In Shuchinak, "Father of the ________" becomes "Father of the Gods" and later "Protector of the Gods of Heave and Earth."
(a) Patient
(b) Women
(c) Weak
(d) Children

3. What Goddess is said to be the Goddess of the Southern part of Egypt before 3000 BCE?
(a) Gold Goddess
(b) Water Goddess
(c) Cobra Goddess
(d) Vulture Goddess

4. Who charges Inanna with stealing the gifts of civilization from him, according to Stone?
(a) Enlil
(b) Enki
(c) Indru
(d) Gilgamesh

5. As Indo-Aryan and Hoite princes and nobles seek to establish themselves, there is continual __________.
(a) Warring
(b) Mass executions
(c) Nomadic disruption
(d) Goddess desecration

Short Answer Questions

1. The Hebrew scriptures disguise ____________ as the male Ashtoreth and seek to discredit her, according to Stone.

2. The illiterate Northerners adopt two alphabets for their Sanskrit language in which they produce the _____________.

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

4. In "The Golden Ass," the Goddess speaks of herself as ___________, manifesting herself in various gods and goddesses.

5. Which area has the sex roles for society reversed and where a warrior-Goddess is worshiped?

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