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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Mother Goddess provides life and a controllable ____________ to the people who believe in her.
(a) Seasonal pattern
(b) Money supply
(c) Food supply
(d) Water supply

2. At some point, the Goddess acquires a male who becomes her lover or consort, but she retains _____________.
(a) A husband
(b) Precedence
(c) Her God partner
(d) Submissiveness

3. Women lose ground in Mesopotamia as the _________ goddesses are relegated to the role of consorts to particular gods.
(a) Sumerian
(b) Ethiopian
(c) Libyan
(d) Egyptian

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One theory is that the woman's ability to produce ___________ so awes men that they worship women.

2. Who is the Sumerian Queen of Heaven, according to historical scholars and to evidence from the time period?

3. Stone discovers that what she thought about sun/moon gods and earth/heaven symbolism is ____________.

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

5. ______________ is said to have been Queen Omphale's servile lover, according to Stone.

(see the answer key)

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