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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cretan women are _____________ free and enjoy high standing in their society, according to Stone.
(a) Sexually
(b) Financially
(c) Morally
(d) Spiritually

2. At some point, the Goddess acquires a male who becomes her lover or consort, but she retains _____________.
(a) A husband
(b) Submissiveness
(c) Her God partner
(d) Precedence

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

4. Love poems found hint that ____________ women were the ones who did the wooing in relationships, according to Stone.
(a) Egyptians
(b) Roman
(c) Libyan
(d) Greek

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

6. Greek accounts of women defending ancient shrines and expelling invaders may be the basis for ____________ legends.
(a) Pyramid
(b) Goddess
(c) Amazon
(d) Atlantis

7. What kind of Sumerian writing allows the historians of the day to be able to find literature that was written about history?
(a) Numerological
(b) Cuneiform
(c) Astrological
(d) Block

8. The Bhagavad-Gita shows ______ bringing culture and light to aborigines who are called demons if they refuse and monkeys or bears if they accept.
(a) Isis
(b) Indra
(c) Andu
(d) Rama

9. 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.
(a) Hebrew
(b) Sumerian
(c) Hittite
(d) Roman

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

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

12. Stories about the Goddesses were hardly the innocent childlike ____________ that many stories of them have become.
(a) Fables
(b) Monsters
(c) Dreams
(d) Figures

13. Which area has the sex roles for society reversed and where a warrior-Goddess is worshiped?
(a) Libya
(b) Egypt
(c) Ethiopia
(d) Israel

14. Who were the darker skinned Goddess worshiping people who were seen to be culturally superior?
(a) Dravidians
(b) Hebrews
(c) Indo-Aryan barbarians
(d) Sumerians

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Goddess is thought to be the inventor of agriculture, a healer, a physician, and a lawgiver?

2. Women lose ground in Mesopotamia as the _________ goddesses are relegated to the role of consorts to particular gods.

3. Even as the males gain control over government in Minoan culture, the Goddess remains supreme and the male is a _____________.

4. Hat-Hor is symbolized by a ________ with a cobra on her forehead, as the nature of Ua Zit is retained in the culture.

5. ____________ continues to be revered as the bestower of rights to shepherds and kings, suggesting matrilineal rights still apply to royalty.

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