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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Stories about the Goddesses were hardly the innocent childlike ____________ that many stories of them have become.
(a) Figures
(b) Dreams
(c) Fables
(d) Monsters

2. Cretan women are _____________ free and enjoy high standing in their society, according to Stone.
(a) Spiritually
(b) Sexually
(c) Financially
(d) Morally

3. Stone discovers that what she thought about sun/moon gods and earth/heaven symbolism is ____________.
(a) A lie
(b) Wrong
(c) Correct
(d) Incomplete

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

5. _____________ is the name given by scholars to Cretan cultural sites on the Greek mainland.
(a) Ethos
(b) Mycenae
(c) Athens
(d) Portos

Short Answer Questions

1. Myths that grow from a religion serving a female deity view ______________ differently from those created by male-oriented religions.

2. ______________ is said to have been Queen Omphale's servile lover, according to Stone.

3. ___________ sacrifices are important to the Levite rites as to the Brahmins, according to Stone.

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

5. What Goddess is said to be the Goddess of the Northern part of Egypt before 3000 BCE?

(see the answer key)

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