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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At Nimrud, documents show that women still serve as ____________ and magistrates in the 8th century BCE.
(a) Juries
(b) Judges
(c) Accusers
(d) Witnesses

3. Brother-sister marriage is seen in Egypt in order to give _______ access to royal privilege as international marriages were prohibited.
(a) Daughters
(b) Women
(c) Men
(d) Sons

4. What do the words 'bala' in Sanskrit, or bull, and 'tura' from Akkadian times mean?
(a) Power
(b) Ignorance
(c) Goddess
(d) Love

5. Indo-European deities are male and are mainly what kind of gods, blazing high in the mountains in fire or lightning?
(a) Tree
(b) Storm
(c) Thunder
(d) Stone

Short Answer Questions

1. __________, "Lord of the mountains," kills Danu and her son Vrtra, causing cosmic waters to flow, which gives birth to the sun.

2. What Goddess is said to be the Goddess of the Southern part of Egypt before 3000 BCE?

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

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

5. What is NOT a city-state which is matrilineal, according to Stone?

(see the answer key)

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