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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Female deities are extolled for their roles as healers, with female priestesses serving as _____________.
(a) Voodoo doctors
(b) Nurses
(c) Physicians
(d) Assistants

2. What kind of Sumerian writing allows the historians of the day to be able to find literature that was written about history?
(a) Cuneiform
(b) Numerological
(c) Astrological
(d) Block

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

4. Some scholars suggest that the influence of the Goddess only seems minor because the Goddess has ___________.
(a) No control over men
(b) Many names
(c) Little power
(d) No bearing on everyday life

5. The Upper Paleolithic existence of the Goddess is speculative since it precedes ______________.
(a) Religion
(b) Pictures
(c) Writing
(d) Academic life

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which Goddess is thought to be the inventor of agriculture, a healer, a physician, and a lawgiver?

5. The Adam and Eve myth tells a female children her entire ______ is easily tricked, defiant, and provoking, according to Stone.

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