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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 Northern part of Egypt before 3000 BCE?
(a) Vulture Goddess
(b) Water Goddess
(c) Cobra Goddess
(d) Gold Goddess

2. Royal families were found to show that the Egyptian culture was ____________, according to Stone.
(a) Spiritual
(b) Disorganized
(c) Matrilineal
(d) Religion-based

3. Which Goddess is said to have created everything, including setting the Sun God Ra into the sky?
(a) Nut
(b) Athena
(c) Osiris
(d) Isis

4. Hittite armies often clash with ___________ in their attempts to try to control Canaan, according to Stone.
(a) Greeks
(b) Ethiopians
(c) Romans
(d) Egyptians

5. The mountain-god ___________ rapes the Goddess' daughter Ninlil who is later said to be his wife, according to older documentation.
(a) Envil
(b) Indana
(c) Indru
(d) Enlil

Short Answer Questions

1. Diodorus of _________ writes respectfully and admiringly about women wielding power in the lands where he travels.

2. Greek accounts of women defending ancient shrines and expelling invaders may be the basis for ____________ legends.

3. Egypt practices ___________ when they need to determine property and descent in the society.

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

5. It appears that the critical element is matrilineal descent of name and ___________ rather than women in power.

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