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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ___________ is just another attempt at explaining human existence - yet Western civilization accepts this contrived myth as history.
(a) Genesis
(b) Star Goddess
(c) The Prodigal Son
(d) The multiplication of the bread and the wine

2. Which area has communal marriage, according to the writings of Diodorus?
(a) Iraq
(b) Ethiopia
(c) Israel
(d) Libya

3. Archaeology indicates that societies revere the Mother Goddess as the supreme __________.
(a) Deity
(b) Prophet
(c) Sister
(d) Guardian

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

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

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

7. _____________ is the name given by scholars to Cretan cultural sites on the Greek mainland.
(a) Portos
(b) Ethos
(c) Athens
(d) Mycenae

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

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

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

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

12. Females seem to invent not just agriculture, but also ______________, according to Stone's findings.
(a) Mathematics
(b) Writing
(c) Stars
(d) Paper

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

14. The _____________ Goddess resuscitates her mate, proving she is the ultimate source of life and regeneration.
(a) Sumerian
(b) Egyptian
(c) Greek
(d) Mesopotamian

15. Hittite armies often clash with ___________ in their attempts to try to control Canaan, according to Stone.
(a) Greeks
(b) Ethiopians
(c) Egyptians
(d) Romans

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for the Northern Tribes as they are described in this chapter?

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

3. Robertson Smith claims that in Arabia, all traits of the dominant Goddess are transferred to the _____________ before she is subordinated.

4. Greek accounts of women defending ancient shrines and expelling invaders may be the basis for ____________ legends.

5. The Code of _____________ shows that women retain some of their rights as the times begin to change.

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