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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Royal families were found to show that the Egyptian culture was ____________, according to Stone.
(a) Spiritual
(b) Religion-based
(c) Matrilineal
(d) Disorganized

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

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

4. It appears that the critical element is matrilineal descent of name and ___________ rather than women in power.
(a) Property
(b) Paper
(c) Crops
(d) Lovers

5. What is another name for Artemis, as discover by scholars in the classical Greek times?
(a) Apollo
(b) Astarte
(c) Zeus
(d) Diana

Short Answer Questions

1. Hebrew women are inferior to their neighbors because they are needed to bear many __________.

2. Robertson Smith claims the Semitic religion results from the juxtaposition of ___________ worship and a female kinship system.

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

4. In northern Canaan, Adath, the "Important Lady of the _____________" rules in Ugarit in the 14th century BCE.

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

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