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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Royal families were found to show that the Egyptian culture was ____________, according to Stone.
(a) Religion-based
(b) Disorganized
(c) Matrilineal
(d) Spiritual

2. Robertson Smith claims the Semitic religion results from the juxtaposition of ___________ worship and a female kinship system.
(a) Light
(b) Ancestor
(c) Nature
(d) Crop

3. Females seem to invent not just agriculture, but also ______________, according to Stone's findings.
(a) Stars
(b) Writing
(c) Mathematics
(d) Paper

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

5. ______________ is said to have been Queen Omphale's servile lover, according to Stone.
(a) Hercules
(b) Mercury
(c) Artemis
(d) Zeus

Short Answer Questions

1. ___________ women cannot engage in business and are killed for losing their virginity before marriage, even if they were raped.

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

3. In "The Golden Ass," the Goddess speaks of herself as ___________, manifesting herself in various gods and goddesses.

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

5. Some scholars suggest that the influence of the Goddess only seems minor because the Goddess has ___________.

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