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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What might happen if a man were to sleep with another woman after having slept with a Goddess?
(a) The Goddess' powers could be transferred to someone else
(b) The man could die
(c) The woman would die
(d) The Goddess would die

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

3. It appears that the critical element is matrilineal descent of name and ___________ rather than women in power.
(a) Crops
(b) Paper
(c) Property
(d) Lovers

4. In "The Golden Ass," the Goddess speaks of herself as ___________, manifesting herself in various gods and goddesses.
(a) Nature
(b) Spirit
(c) Everything
(d) Oneness

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of Sumerian writing allows the historians of the day to be able to find literature that was written about history?

2. ______________ reflects a political ideology in which a single person rules, while _______________ images the communal attitude.

3. _________ tells Ezekiel to mark the foreheads of men in Jerusalem who commit abominations so they can be destroyed.

4. Anath buries _____ and avenges him gruesomely, and then allows him to re-enter the world of the living.

5. ___________ sacrifices are important to the Levite rites as to the Brahmins, according to Stone.

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