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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) Physicians
(b) Voodoo doctors
(c) Nurses
(d) Assistants

2. One theory is that the woman's ability to produce ___________ so awes men that they worship women.
(a) Peace
(b) Poetry
(c) Children
(d) Crops

3. According to the writing "The Golden Ass," what is the proper name of the Goddess?
(a) Queen Mother
(b) She
(c) Queen Astarte
(d) Queen Isis

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

5. _____________ is the name given by scholars to Cretan cultural sites on the Greek mainland.
(a) Portos
(b) Ethos
(c) Athens
(d) Mycenae

Short Answer Questions

1. The Code of _____________ shows that women retain some of their rights as the times begin to change.

2. 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.

3. Royal families were found to show that the Egyptian culture was ____________, according to Stone.

4. Love poems found hint that ____________ women were the ones who did the wooing in relationships, according to Stone.

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

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