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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Stone's question is: What affect does worshiping a female deity and living in a _________ society have on women?
(a) Peaceful
(b) Complicated
(c) Matriarchal
(d) Warring

3. The Mother Goddess provides life and a controllable ____________ to the people who believe in her.
(a) Seasonal pattern
(b) Food supply
(c) Money supply
(d) Water supply

4. Some priestesses act as _______, providing military and political advice to royalty, though the men begin to outnumber them.
(a) Singers
(b) Oracles
(c) Priests
(d) Scholars

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for Artemis, as discover by scholars in the classical Greek times?

2. Who is the Sumerian Queen of Heaven, according to historical scholars and to evidence from the time period?

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

4. Myths that grow from a religion serving a female deity view ______________ differently from those created by male-oriented religions.

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

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