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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Robertson Smith claims the Semitic religion results from the juxtaposition of ___________ worship and a female kinship system.
(a) Light
(b) Ancestor
(c) Nature
(d) Crop

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

3. What is another name for the Northern Tribes as they are described in this chapter?
(a) Gods of the darkness
(b) Old boys' clubs
(c) Warrior kings
(d) Battle ax cultures

4. Some priestesses act as _______, providing military and political advice to royalty, though the men begin to outnumber them.
(a) Priests
(b) Oracles
(c) Scholars
(d) Singers

5. Greek accounts of women defending ancient shrines and expelling invaders may be the basis for ____________ legends.
(a) Goddess
(b) Pyramid
(c) Atlantis
(d) Amazon

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Myths that grow from a religion serving a female deity view ______________ differently from those created by male-oriented religions.

3. Various Hatti Goddesses survive the battle of the Hittites, and are known as the __________.

4. The Bhagavad-Gita shows ______ bringing culture and light to aborigines who are called demons if they refuse and monkeys or bears if they accept.

5. Some scholars suggest that the influence of the Goddess only seems minor because the Goddess has ___________.

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