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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. ______________ have been found in primitive settlements from Spain to Siberia, hailing from 25,000 BCE.
(a) Willendorf sculptures
(b) Goddess books
(c) Male figurines
(d) Venus figures

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

4. Stone discovers that what she thought about sun/moon gods and earth/heaven symbolism is ____________.
(a) A lie
(b) Correct
(c) Wrong
(d) Incomplete

5. ____________ worship is described throughout the Middle East in the period of time of 3000 BCE.
(a) Goddess
(b) Sun
(c) Animal
(d) God

Short Answer Questions

1. Stone's question is: What affect does worshiping a female deity and living in a _________ society have on women?

2. Who is the weaker brother or husband to the Egyptian Goddess Isis?

3. The mountain-god ___________ rapes the Goddess' daughter Ninlil who is later said to be his wife, according to older documentation.

4. _____________ is the name given by scholars to Cretan cultural sites on the Greek mainland.

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

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