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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Archaeology indicates that societies revere the Mother Goddess as the supreme __________.
(a) Deity
(b) Prophet
(c) Sister
(d) Guardian

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

4. Brother-sister marriage is seen in Egypt in order to give _______ access to royal privilege as international marriages were prohibited.
(a) Men
(b) Daughters
(c) Women
(d) Sons

5. Which area has the sex roles for society reversed and where a warrior-Goddess is worshiped?
(a) Egypt
(b) Israel
(c) Ethiopia
(d) Libya

Short Answer Questions

1. As advances in ____________ and domestication of animals clarify the male's role in reproduction, the mythological spouse gains importance.

2. At Nimrud, documents show that women still serve as ____________ and magistrates in the 8th century BCE.

3. Love poems found hint that ____________ women were the ones who did the wooing in relationships, according to Stone.

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

5. 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.

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