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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Myths that grow from a religion serving a female deity view ______________ differently from those created by male-oriented religions.
(a) Learning
(b) Religion
(c) Womanhood
(d) Manhood

3. It appears that the critical element is matrilineal descent of name and ___________ rather than women in power.
(a) Crops
(b) Paper
(c) Lovers
(d) Property

4. Archaeology indicates that societies revere the Mother Goddess as the supreme __________.
(a) Deity
(b) Prophet
(c) Guardian
(d) Sister

5. In Shuchinak, "Father of the ________" becomes "Father of the Gods" and later "Protector of the Gods of Heave and Earth."
(a) Weak
(b) Women
(c) Patient
(d) Children

Short Answer Questions

1. Which area has the sex roles for society reversed and where a warrior-Goddess is worshiped?

2. The ___________ are ruled by an Aryan warrior caste and worship old Indian deities, according to Stone.

3. Even as the males gain control over government in Minoan culture, the Goddess remains supreme and the male is a _____________.

4. At Nimrud, documents show that women still serve as ____________ and magistrates in the 8th century BCE.

5. The illiterate Northerners adopt two alphabets for their Sanskrit language in which they produce the _____________.

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