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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the weaker brother or husband to the Egyptian Goddess Isis?
(a) Menaleus
(b) Luxor
(c) Osiris
(d) Irison

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

4. What is NOT a city-state which is matrilineal, according to Stone?
(a) Athens
(b) Argos
(c) Thebes
(d) Rome

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Klein suggests that home ownership in early societies makes _________ depend on __________.

3. Robertson Smith claims the Semitic religion results from the juxtaposition of ___________ worship and a female kinship system.

4. Robertson Smith claims that in Arabia, all traits of the dominant Goddess are transferred to the _____________ before she is subordinated.

5. It appears that the critical element is matrilineal descent of name and ___________ rather than women in power.

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