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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

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) Monsters
(d) Fables

2. Instead of the king being put to death, he is stripped and humiliated in public during the _____________.
(a) Celebration of the Harvest
(b) Mid Summer's Day Events
(c) All Souls Festival
(d) New Year Festival

3. ______________ is said to have been Queen Omphale's servile lover, according to Stone.
(a) Hercules
(b) Mercury
(c) Zeus
(d) Artemis

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

5. What is the name of the idols which are found on hilltops, under green trees, and beside Canaanite altars?
(a) Stelae
(b) Tablets
(c) Hittas
(d) Asherah

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________, Adam's first wife, refuses to be sexually submissive and later becomes a demon in stories.

2. Clement of Alexandria quotes Christ, saying he has come to destroy the works of the ___________.

3. Which area has communal marriage, according to the writings of Diodorus?

4. What Goddess is said to be the Goddess of the Southern part of Egypt before 3000 BCE?

5. Cretan women are _____________ free and enjoy high standing in their society, according to Stone.

(see the answer key)

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