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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Adam and Eve myth tells a female children her entire ______ is easily tricked, defiant, and provoking, according to Stone.
(a) Sex
(b) Manner
(c) Religion
(d) Soul

2. The Upper Paleolithic existence of the Goddess is speculative since it precedes ______________.
(a) Religion
(b) Pictures
(c) Writing
(d) Academic life

3. The ___________ are ruled by an Aryan warrior caste and worship old Indian deities, according to Stone.
(a) Hurrians
(b) Harrians
(c) Hittites
(d) Indian Goddesses

4. The ________ tribes leave no record of when or why they adopt a male deity, according to Stone.
(a) Eastern
(b) Southern
(c) Western
(d) Northern

5. Neolithic art at Catal Huyuk, Hacilar, and Elam shows the _______ as subsidiary, according to Stone.
(a) Animal
(b) Male
(c) Female
(d) Goddess

6. 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

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

8. Eridu worships a fish or water god, which is consistent with their introducing __________ in their society.
(a) Resevoirs
(b) Farming
(c) Irrigation canals
(d) Fountains

9. Various Hatti Goddesses survive the battle of the Hittites, and are known as the __________.
(a) Guild
(b) Group
(c) Family
(d) Throne

10. Even as the males gain control over government in Minoan culture, the Goddess remains supreme and the male is a _____________.
(a) Satellite
(b) Servant
(c) Distraction
(d) Consort

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

12. According to the writing "The Golden Ass," what is the proper name of the Goddess?
(a) Queen Mother
(b) Queen Isis
(c) Queen Astarte
(d) She

13. One theory is that the woman's ability to produce ___________ so awes men that they worship women.
(a) Peace
(b) Crops
(c) Children
(d) Poetry

14. As advances in ____________ and domestication of animals clarify the male's role in reproduction, the mythological spouse gains importance.
(a) Farming
(b) Religion
(c) Breeding
(d) Government

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which Goddess is said to have created everything, including setting the Sun God Ra into the sky?

4. The _______________ tablets from the same region of the world as the Genesis story tell a different creation story with the woman as the positive part of the story.

5. The _____________ Goddess resuscitates her mate, proving she is the ultimate source of life and regeneration.

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