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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Greek accounts of women defending ancient shrines and expelling invaders may be the basis for ____________ legends.
(a) Pyramid
(b) Atlantis
(c) Amazon
(d) Goddess

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

4. At some point, the Goddess acquires a male who becomes her lover or consort, but she retains _____________.
(a) Precedence
(b) Submissiveness
(c) A husband
(d) Her God partner

5. One theory is that the woman's ability to produce ___________ so awes men that they worship women.
(a) Crops
(b) Poetry
(c) Peace
(d) Children

Short Answer Questions

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

2. ___________ women work in business, hold real estate, lend money, and work as scribes around the time of 2000 BCE.

3. Who is the first prophet of Yahweh, who arrives thousands of years after the Goddess emerges in history?

4. Hebrew women are inferior to their neighbors because they are needed to bear many __________.

5. Robertson Smith claims the Semitic religion results from the juxtaposition of ___________ worship and a female kinship system.

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