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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. ____________ worship is described throughout the Middle East in the period of time of 3000 BCE.
(a) Sun
(b) God
(c) Goddess
(d) Animal

3. Myths that grow from a religion serving a female deity view ______________ differently from those created by male-oriented religions.
(a) Religion
(b) Learning
(c) Manhood
(d) Womanhood

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

5. The female must suffer in pain in ____________ because of the fall of Adam and Eve, according to Stone.
(a) Life
(b) Menstruation
(c) Government
(d) Childbirth

Short Answer Questions

1. Neolithic art at Catal Huyuk, Hacilar, and Elam shows the _______ as subsidiary, according to Stone.

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

3. Female deities are extolled for their roles as healers, with female priestesses serving as _____________.

4. According to the writing "The Golden Ass," what is the proper name of the Goddess?

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

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