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

Multiple Choice 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.
(a) Hebrew
(b) Roman
(c) Sumerian
(d) Hittite

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the weaker brother or husband to the Egyptian Goddess Isis?

3. Stories about the Goddesses were hardly the innocent childlike ____________ that many stories of them have become.

4. In "The Golden Ass," the Goddess speaks of herself as ___________, manifesting herself in various gods and goddesses.

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

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