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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The Code of _____________ shows that women retain some of their rights as the times begin to change.
(a) Ra
(b) Hammurabi
(c) Solomon
(d) Isis

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

5. The Hebrew scriptures disguise ____________ as the male Ashtoreth and seek to discredit her, according to Stone.
(a) Lilith
(b) Isis
(c) Eve
(d) Astarte

6. 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) Indra
(b) Isis
(c) Rama
(d) Andu

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

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

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

10. Brother-sister marriage is seen in Egypt in order to give _______ access to royal privilege as international marriages were prohibited.
(a) Men
(b) Women
(c) Sons
(d) Daughters

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

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

13. Priestly scribes appear to write out of ____________ motive more than religious fervor about supreme male deities and the institution of kingship.
(a) Personal
(b) Political
(c) Moral
(d) Ethical

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. It appears that the critical element is matrilineal descent of name and ___________ rather than women in power.

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

5. What is NOT a city-state which is matrilineal, according to Stone?

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