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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another name for Artemis, as discover by scholars in the classical Greek times?
(a) Astarte
(b) Apollo
(c) Zeus
(d) Diana

2. The ___________ are ruled by an Aryan warrior caste and worship old Indian deities, according to Stone.
(a) Hurrians
(b) Harrians
(c) Hittites
(d) Indian Goddesses

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

4. 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

5. Hat-Hor is symbolized by a ________ with a cobra on her forehead, as the nature of Ua Zit is retained in the culture.
(a) Snake
(b) Cow
(c) Horse
(d) Pig

6. Hebrew women are inferior to their neighbors because they are needed to bear many __________.
(a) Daughters
(b) Sons
(c) Lands
(d) Crops

7. What is another name for the Northern Tribes as they are described in this chapter?
(a) Old boys' clubs
(b) Warrior kings
(c) Gods of the darkness
(d) Battle ax cultures

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) Storm
(c) Thunder
(d) Stone

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

10. Klein suggests that home ownership in early societies makes _________ depend on __________.
(a) Females; females
(b) Males; females
(c) Females; males
(d) Males; males

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

12. Diodorus of _________ writes respectfully and admiringly about women wielding power in the lands where he travels.
(a) Sparta
(b) Sicily
(c) Rome
(d) Crete

13. Who is the weaker brother or husband to the Egyptian Goddess Isis?
(a) Osiris
(b) Irison
(c) Luxor
(d) Menaleus

14. Which Goddess is said to have created everything, including setting the Sun God Ra into the sky?
(a) Osiris
(b) Nut
(c) Isis
(d) Athena

15. Myths that grow from a religion serving a female deity view ______________ differently from those created by male-oriented religions.
(a) Religion
(b) Womanhood
(c) Learning
(d) Manhood

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As Indo-Aryan and Hoite princes and nobles seek to establish themselves, there is continual __________.

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

4. ___________ women cannot engage in business and are killed for losing their virginity before marriage, even if they were raped.

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

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