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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Adam and Eve myth tells a female children her entire ______ is easily tricked, defiant, and provoking, according to Stone.
(a) Religion
(b) Sex
(c) Soul
(d) Manner

2. Which area has communal marriage, according to the writings of Diodorus?
(a) Ethiopia
(b) Israel
(c) Libya
(d) Iraq

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

4. The Hebrew scriptures disguise ____________ as the male Ashtoreth and seek to discredit her, according to Stone.
(a) Astarte
(b) Eve
(c) Lilith
(d) Isis

5. ___________ is just another attempt at explaining human existence - yet Western civilization accepts this contrived myth as history.
(a) Star Goddess
(b) The Prodigal Son
(c) The multiplication of the bread and the wine
(d) Genesis

Short Answer Questions

1. Females seem to invent not just agriculture, but also ______________, according to Stone's findings.

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

3. The _____________ invasions weaken the matrilineal tradition and the Dorians make patrilineal succession normative.

4. Various Hatti Goddesses survive the battle of the Hittites, and are known as the __________.

5. _____________ is the name given by scholars to Cretan cultural sites on the Greek mainland.

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