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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Even as the males gain control over government in Minoan culture, the Goddess remains supreme and the male is a _____________.
(a) Consort
(b) Distraction
(c) Satellite
(d) Servant

2. Who is the weaker brother or husband to the Egyptian Goddess Isis?
(a) Irison
(b) Osiris
(c) Luxor
(d) Menaleus

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

4. Egypt practices ___________ when they need to determine property and descent in the society.
(a) Goddess will
(b) Sibling-kinship
(c) Mother-kinship
(d) God structure

5. As advances in ____________ and domestication of animals clarify the male's role in reproduction, the mythological spouse gains importance.
(a) Religion
(b) Breeding
(c) Government
(d) Farming

Short Answer Questions

1. The _______________ tablets from the same region of the world as the Genesis story tell a different creation story with the woman as the positive part of the story.

2. Who is the author of "The Golden Ass' which was written in the second century CE?

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

4. Who is the first prophet of Yahweh, who arrives thousands of years after the Goddess emerges in history?

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

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