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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Some priestesses act as _______, providing military and political advice to royalty, though the men begin to outnumber them.
(a) Priests
(b) Oracles
(c) Scholars
(d) Singers

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

3. The _____________ invasions weaken the matrilineal tradition and the Dorians make patrilineal succession normative.
(a) Roman
(b) Iranian
(c) Ethiopian
(d) Achaean

4. Which area has communal marriage, according to the writings of Diodorus?
(a) Iraq
(b) Israel
(c) Ethiopia
(d) Libya

5. What is another name for Artemis, as discover by scholars in the classical Greek times?
(a) Diana
(b) Zeus
(c) Astarte
(d) Apollo

Short Answer Questions

1. At Nimrud, documents show that women still serve as ____________ and magistrates in the 8th century BCE.

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

3. Who is the first prophet of Yahweh, who arrives thousands of years after the Goddess emerges in history?

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

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

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