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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The female must suffer in pain in ____________ because of the fall of Adam and Eve, according to Stone.
(a) Menstruation
(b) Government
(c) Childbirth
(d) Life

3. ______________ is said to have been Queen Omphale's servile lover, according to Stone.
(a) Zeus
(b) Artemis
(c) Hercules
(d) Mercury

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

5. What Goddess is said to be the Goddess of the Southern part of Egypt before 3000 BCE?
(a) Vulture Goddess
(b) Gold Goddess
(c) Cobra Goddess
(d) Water Goddess

Short Answer Questions

1. As advances in ____________ and domestication of animals clarify the male's role in reproduction, the mythological spouse gains importance.

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

3. ___________ women work in business, hold real estate, lend money, and work as scribes around the time of 2000 BCE.

4. Cretan women are _____________ free and enjoy high standing in their society, according to Stone.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Merlin Stone say that society portrays the modern women and her inherent qualities?

2. Why are Hebrew women supposed to be inferior to their neighbors, according to the Priest/archaeologist Roland de Vaux?

3. How does the Goddess movement and belief system survive, even though the male deity movement continues to take hold?

4. What is the female deity of the time represented as when seem in pictures and in other works of art?

5. Why is the Upper Paleolithic existence of the Goddess speculative at the point of writing this book?

6. What do surviving documents seem to suggest about the writings of priestly scribes during the time of the battle ax warriors?

7. Early Sumerian tablets associate the Divine Ancestress with particular towns. What are three of these towns' names?

8. What are the three types of evidence which seem to point out the existence of the Goddess in Upper Paleolithic times?

9. Who do women appear as in civil litigation during the times of the Egyptians, according to papyri?

10. Why does brother-sister marriage develop in Egyptian times, according to scholar Dr. Margaret Murray?

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