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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Mother Goddess provides life and a controllable ____________ to the people who believe in her.
(a) Seasonal pattern
(b) Food supply
(c) Water supply
(d) Money supply

2. Females seem to invent not just agriculture, but also ______________, according to Stone's findings.
(a) Stars
(b) Paper
(c) Mathematics
(d) Writing

3. Egypt practices ___________ when they need to determine property and descent in the society.
(a) Goddess will
(b) Mother-kinship
(c) Sibling-kinship
(d) God structure

4. Myths that grow from a religion serving a female deity view ______________ differently from those created by male-oriented religions.
(a) Learning
(b) Womanhood
(c) Manhood
(d) Religion

5. Robertson Smith claims the Semitic religion results from the juxtaposition of ___________ worship and a female kinship system.
(a) Crop
(b) Ancestor
(c) Light
(d) Nature

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________ worship is described throughout the Middle East in the period of time of 3000 BCE.

2. The _______________ tablets from the same region of the world as the Genesis story tell a different creation story with the woman as the positive part of the story.

3. The Adam and Eve myth tells a female children her entire ______ is easily tricked, defiant, and provoking, according to Stone.

4. Neolithic art at Catal Huyuk, Hacilar, and Elam shows the _______ as subsidiary, according to Stone.

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

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