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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Robertson Smith claims that in Arabia, all traits of the dominant Goddess are transferred to the _____________ before she is subordinated.
(a) Land
(b) Male
(c) God
(d) Child

3. Females seem to invent not just agriculture, but also ______________, according to Stone's findings.
(a) Stars
(b) Paper
(c) Writing
(d) Mathematics

4. ___________ is just another attempt at explaining human existence - yet Western civilization accepts this contrived myth as history.
(a) The multiplication of the bread and the wine
(b) The Prodigal Son
(c) Genesis
(d) Star Goddess

5. Stone discovers that what she thought about sun/moon gods and earth/heaven symbolism is ____________.
(a) Wrong
(b) A lie
(c) Correct
(d) Incomplete

Short Answer Questions

1. The female must suffer in pain in ____________ because of the fall of Adam and Eve, 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. ____________ worship is described throughout the Middle East in the period of time of 3000 BCE.

4. Egypt practices ___________ when they need to determine property and descent in the society.

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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