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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The ________ tribes leave no record of when or why they adopt a male deity, according to Stone.
(a) Southern
(b) Eastern
(c) Western
(d) Northern

3. ___________ women work in business, hold real estate, lend money, and work as scribes around the time of 2000 BCE.
(a) Concubine
(b) Naditu
(c) Inan
(d) Mittu

4. The female must suffer in pain in ____________ because of the fall of Adam and Eve, according to Stone.
(a) Government
(b) Menstruation
(c) Life
(d) Childbirth

5. The Bhagavad-Gita shows ______ bringing culture and light to aborigines who are called demons if they refuse and monkeys or bears if they accept.
(a) Rama
(b) Andu
(c) Indra
(d) Isis

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the darker skinned Goddess worshiping people who were seen to be culturally superior?

2. ___________ figures are everywhere: in fire sacrifices, astral bodies, lightning, skin color, and some of the gods - Brahma, Mithra, and Dyaus Pitar.

3. Klein suggests that home ownership in early societies makes _________ depend on __________.

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

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

(see the answer key)

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