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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Goddess is thought to be the inventor of agriculture, a healer, a physician, and a lawgiver?
(a) Iris
(b) Isis
(c) Athena
(d) Nut

2. The Adam and Eve myth tells a female children her entire ______ is easily tricked, defiant, and provoking, according to Stone.
(a) Religion
(b) Manner
(c) Sex
(d) Soul

3. Stone's question is: What affect does worshiping a female deity and living in a _________ society have on women?
(a) Complicated
(b) Peaceful
(c) Warring
(d) Matriarchal

4. In "The Golden Ass," the Goddess speaks of herself as ___________, manifesting herself in various gods and goddesses.
(a) Everything
(b) Oneness
(c) Spirit
(d) Nature

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for Artemis, as discover by scholars in the classical Greek times?

2. ____________ worship is described throughout the Middle East in the period of time of 3000 BCE.

3. Some priestesses act as _______, providing military and political advice to royalty, though the men begin to outnumber them.

4. Females seem to invent not just agriculture, but also ______________, according to Stone's findings.

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

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