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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Golden Ass' which was written in the second century CE?
(a) Hippocrates
(b) Sophocles
(c) Apelius
(d) Pythagoras

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

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

4. ___________ women cannot engage in business and are killed for losing their virginity before marriage, even if they were raped.
(a) Egyptian
(b) Hebrew
(c) Sumerian
(d) Libyan

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Archaeology indicates that societies revere the Mother Goddess as the supreme __________.

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

3. 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.

4. Even as the males gain control over government in Minoan culture, the Goddess remains supreme and the male is a _____________.

5. Which Goddess is thought to be the inventor of agriculture, a healer, a physician, and a lawgiver?

(see the answer key)

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