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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Royal families were found to show that the Egyptian culture was ____________, according to Stone.
(a) Matrilineal
(b) Spiritual
(c) Disorganized
(d) Religion-based

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

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

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

5. ___________ figures are everywhere: in fire sacrifices, astral bodies, lightning, skin color, and some of the gods - Brahma, Mithra, and Dyaus Pitar.
(a) Darkness
(b) Power
(c) Light
(d) Energy

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

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

8. Who charges Inanna with stealing the gifts of civilization from him, according to Stone?
(a) Indru
(b) Enki
(c) Enlil
(d) Gilgamesh

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

10. In Shuchinak, "Father of the ________" becomes "Father of the Gods" and later "Protector of the Gods of Heave and Earth."
(a) Women
(b) Children
(c) Weak
(d) Patient

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

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

13. Neolithic art at Catal Huyuk, Hacilar, and Elam shows the _______ as subsidiary, according to Stone.
(a) Female
(b) Male
(c) Goddess
(d) Animal

14. Egypt practices ___________ when they need to determine property and descent in the society.
(a) God structure
(b) Goddess will
(c) Mother-kinship
(d) Sibling-kinship

15. The Followers of Horus decide that Egypt will be ruled as a ______________.
(a) Site of power
(b) Dictatorship
(c) Matriarchy
(d) Master race

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Upper Paleolithic existence of the Goddess is speculative since it precedes ______________.

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

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

5. The ________ tribes leave no record of when or why they adopt a male deity, according to Stone.

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