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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. ___________ is just another attempt at explaining human existence - yet Western civilization accepts this contrived myth as history.

2. Love poems found hint that ____________ women were the ones who did the wooing in relationships, according to Stone.

3. Hebrew women are inferior to their neighbors because they are needed to bear many __________.

4. Neolithic art at Catal Huyuk, Hacilar, and Elam shows the _______ as subsidiary, according to Stone.

5. Robertson Smith claims the Semitic religion results from the juxtaposition of ___________ worship and a female kinship system.

Short Essay Questions

1. What do love poems of Egyptian times have to say about the Egyptian woman's role in the courtship with a man?

2. What does V. Klein have to say about the effect of female power on the society of the ancient times?

3. What are some of the rights women are given in the Code of Hammurabi?

4. Since little has survived about the Goddess in Sumerian times, how can one believe the Goddess was important?

5. How did Middle East societies look at the Goddess in their ancient times?

6. What are some of the qualities attributed to the Goddess Isis, as found by Diodorus?

7. How does male dominance begin to creep into once female-ruled societies?

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

9. Describe the battle ax cultures in terms of what their presence was like during their arrival and contact with Goddess-worshiping Middle Easterners.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In earlier times, the passing of a royal lineage was not necessarily through marriage - it was through blood lines, with women marrying brothers to continue the family.

Part 1: Why do you think marrying one's brother was not seen as odd in the earlier times?

Part 2: What were some of the benefits for marrying one's brother as opposed to marrying outside of the family?

Part 3: Why wasn't this practice continued as the royal families continued?

Essay Topic 2

The idea of the promised land as a sort of reward for practitioners of religion helps to secure control of the people.

Part 1: Why do you think the followers of the religion believed in the promised land?

Part 2: What do you think the followers believed would be in the promised land?

Part 3: Do you believe there is such a thing as a promised land? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

It seems that various peoples are trying to create a Master Race to take over all others.

Part 1: Why would a person want their race to be the most important of all?

Part 2: Do you think there can ever be one Master Race? Why or why not?

Part 3: How do you think a group of people tries to convince others their race is the 'best'?

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