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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ___________ is just another attempt at explaining human existence - yet Western civilization accepts this contrived myth as history.
(a) The Prodigal Son
(b) Star Goddess
(c) Genesis
(d) The multiplication of the bread and the wine

2. Who is the Sumerian Queen of Heaven, according to historical scholars and to evidence from the time period?
(a) Inanna
(b) Hecate
(c) Isis
(d) Astarte

3. Egypt practices ___________ when they need to determine property and descent in the society.
(a) Goddess will
(b) God structure
(c) Mother-kinship
(d) Sibling-kinship

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

5. Eridu worships a fish or water god, which is consistent with their introducing __________ in their society.
(a) Irrigation canals
(b) Resevoirs
(c) Fountains
(d) Farming

Short Answer Questions

1. The ________ tribes leave no record of when or why they adopt a male deity, according to Stone.

2. The Upper Paleolithic existence of the Goddess is speculative since it precedes ______________.

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

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

5. Indo-European deities are male and are mainly what kind of gods, blazing high in the mountains in fire or lightning?

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