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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Indo-European group who live directly south of the Hittites in Cicilia?
(a) Indonesians
(b) Luvians
(c) Levites
(d) Porthos

2. Who is the first prophet of Yahweh, who arrives thousands of years after the Goddess emerges in history?
(a) Jesus
(b) Solomon
(c) Joseph
(d) Abraham

3. In "The Golden Ass," the Goddess speaks of herself as ___________, manifesting herself in various gods and goddesses.
(a) Oneness
(b) Nature
(c) Spirit
(d) Everything

4. ___________ women work in business, hold real estate, lend money, and work as scribes around the time of 2000 BCE.
(a) Naditu
(b) Mittu
(c) Concubine
(d) Inan

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. Who is the author of "The Golden Ass' which was written in the second century CE?
(a) Apelius
(b) Sophocles
(c) Hippocrates
(d) Pythagoras

7. The _____________ invasions weaken the matrilineal tradition and the Dorians make patrilineal succession normative.
(a) Roman
(b) Ethiopian
(c) Achaean
(d) Iranian

8. Indo-European deities are male and are mainly what kind of gods, blazing high in the mountains in fire or lightning?
(a) Tree
(b) Thunder
(c) Storm
(d) Stone

9. Women lose ground in Mesopotamia as the _________ goddesses are relegated to the role of consorts to particular gods.
(a) Egyptian
(b) Ethiopian
(c) Sumerian
(d) Libyan

10. 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) Sumerian
(b) Roman
(c) Hittite
(d) Hebrew

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

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

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

14. Female deities are extolled for their roles as healers, with female priestesses serving as _____________.
(a) Assistants
(b) Physicians
(c) Voodoo doctors
(d) Nurses

15. Who were the light-skinned warriors who encountered the darker-skinned Goddess worshiping people?
(a) Dravidians
(b) Hebrews
(c) Indo-Ayyan barbarians
(d) Sumerians

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What Goddess is said to be the Goddess of the Southern part of Egypt before 3000 BCE?

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

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

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