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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Goddess is said to be the Goddess of the Southern part of Egypt before 3000 BCE?
(a) Water Goddess
(b) Vulture Goddess
(c) Gold Goddess
(d) Cobra Goddess

2. Who charges Inanna with stealing the gifts of civilization from him, according to Stone?
(a) Gilgamesh
(b) Enlil
(c) Indru
(d) Enki

3. __________, "Lord of the mountains," kills Danu and her son Vrtra, causing cosmic waters to flow, which gives birth to the sun.
(a) Astarte
(b) Sophocles
(c) Indra
(d) Andu

4. What is the name of the Indo-European group who live directly south of the Hittites in Cicilia?
(a) Levites
(b) Porthos
(c) Luvians
(d) Indonesians

5. The Followers of Horus decide that Egypt will be ruled as a ______________.
(a) Matriarchy
(b) Site of power
(c) Dictatorship
(d) Master race

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Stories about the Goddesses were hardly the innocent childlike ____________ that many stories of them have become.

3. As advances in ____________ and domestication of animals clarify the male's role in reproduction, the mythological spouse gains importance.

4. ____________ continues to be revered as the bestower of rights to shepherds and kings, suggesting matrilineal rights still apply to royalty.

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

(see the answer key)

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