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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The female must suffer in pain in ____________ because of the fall of Adam and Eve, according to Stone.
(a) Life
(b) Menstruation
(c) Childbirth
(d) Government

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

3. Robertson Smith claims that in Arabia, all traits of the dominant Goddess are transferred to the _____________ before she is subordinated.
(a) God
(b) Land
(c) Child
(d) Male

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

5. The Code of _____________ shows that women retain some of their rights as the times begin to change.
(a) Ra
(b) Isis
(c) Hammurabi
(d) Solomon

Short Answer Questions

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

2. _____________ is the name given by scholars to Cretan cultural sites on the Greek mainland.

3. Which Goddess is said to have created everything, including setting the Sun God Ra into the sky?

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

5. Stone's question is: What affect does worshiping a female deity and living in a _________ society have on women?

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