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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the light-skinned warriors who encountered the darker-skinned Goddess worshiping people?
(a) Sumerians
(b) Indo-Ayyan barbarians
(c) Dravidians
(d) Hebrews

2. _____________ is the name given by scholars to Cretan cultural sites on the Greek mainland.
(a) Ethos
(b) Portos
(c) Athens
(d) Mycenae

3. What is another name for the Northern Tribes as they are described in this chapter?
(a) Gods of the darkness
(b) Battle ax cultures
(c) Old boys' clubs
(d) Warrior kings

4. In an Iranian tale, __________ is warned that people have sinned, so he should build a vara, or fortress to protect civlization.
(a) Akhmed
(b) Rulith
(c) Yima
(d) Yarus

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Stories about the Goddesses were hardly the innocent childlike ____________ that many stories of them have become.

3. It appears that the critical element is matrilineal descent of name and ___________ rather than women in power.

4. Royal families were found to show that the Egyptian culture was ____________, according to Stone.

5. ___________ is just another attempt at explaining human existence - yet Western civilization accepts this contrived myth as history.

(see the answer key)

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