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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. ___________ women cannot engage in business and are killed for losing their virginity before marriage, even if they were raped.
(a) Libyan
(b) Hebrew
(c) Sumerian
(d) Egyptian

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

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

13. __________, "Lord of the mountains," kills Danu and her son Vrtra, causing cosmic waters to flow, which gives birth to the sun.
(a) Astarte
(b) Sophocles
(c) Indra
(d) Andu

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

15. In northern Canaan, Adath, the "Important Lady of the _____________" rules in Ugarit in the 14th century BCE.
(a) Royal Family
(b) Royal House
(c) World
(d) Universe

Short Answer Questions

1. The female must suffer in pain in ____________ because of the fall of Adam and Eve, according to Stone.

2. Who were the light-skinned warriors who encountered the darker-skinned Goddess worshiping people?

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

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

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

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