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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In an Iranian tale, __________ is warned that people have sinned, so he should build a vara, or fortress to protect civlization.
(a) Yarus
(b) Rulith
(c) Yima
(d) Akhmed

2. The Levites purposefully misspell and mispronounce __________'s name, turn her into a male, and never picture her alone in order to demean her.
(a) Isis
(b) Gaia
(c) Astara
(d) Ashtoreth

3. Stone believes women were the first to connect ___________ and reproduction and to integrate the reality into religion.
(a) Sex
(b) Unity
(c) Love
(d) Blood

4. What do the words 'bala' in Sanskrit, or bull, and 'tura' from Akkadian times mean?
(a) Ignorance
(b) Goddess
(c) Power
(d) Love

5. What is NOT a city-state which is matrilineal, according to Stone?
(a) Thebes
(b) Athens
(c) Argos
(d) Rome

Short Answer Questions

1. What might happen if a man were to sleep with another woman after having slept with a Goddess?

2. King ____________ is threatened with the loss of his kingdom for forsaking Yahweh and worshiping Ashtoreth.

3. In the first century BCE, children born to ____________ are legitimate and respectable and unmarried women are worshiped.

4. Royal families were found to show that the Egyptian culture was ____________, according to Stone.

5. ______________ have been found in primitive settlements from Spain to Siberia, hailing from 25,000 BCE.

(see the answer key)

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