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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hebrew women are inferior to their neighbors because they are needed to bear many __________.
(a) Crops
(b) Lands
(c) Sons
(d) Daughters

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

4. The Hebrew scriptures disguise ____________ as the male Ashtoreth and seek to discredit her, according to Stone.
(a) Astarte
(b) Isis
(c) Lilith
(d) Eve

5. Greek accounts of women defending ancient shrines and expelling invaders may be the basis for ____________ legends.
(a) Amazon
(b) Pyramid
(c) Atlantis
(d) Goddess

Short Answer Questions

1. ___________ is just another attempt at explaining human existence - yet Western civilization accepts this contrived myth as history.

2. As advances in ____________ and domestication of animals clarify the male's role in reproduction, the mythological spouse gains importance.

3. Some scholars suggest that the influence of the Goddess only seems minor because the Goddess has ___________.

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

5. What is NOT a city-state which is matrilineal, according to Stone?

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