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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It appears that the critical element is matrilineal descent of name and ___________ rather than women in power.
(a) Property
(b) Paper
(c) Lovers
(d) Crops

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

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

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

5. Some priestesses act as _______, providing military and political advice to royalty, though the men begin to outnumber them.
(a) Singers
(b) Priests
(c) Oracles
(d) Scholars

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

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

8. Stone's question is: What affect does worshiping a female deity and living in a _________ society have on women?
(a) Complicated
(b) Matriarchal
(c) Warring
(d) Peaceful

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

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

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

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

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

14. Indo-European deities are male and are mainly what kind of gods, blazing high in the mountains in fire or lightning?
(a) Stone
(b) Thunder
(c) Storm
(d) Tree

15. What do the words 'bala' in Sanskrit, or bull, and 'tura' from Akkadian times mean?
(a) Power
(b) Love
(c) Goddess
(d) Ignorance

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Goddess is said to have created everything, including setting the Sun God Ra into the sky?

2. __________, "Lord of the mountains," kills Danu and her son Vrtra, causing cosmic waters to flow, which gives birth to the sun.

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

4. Myths that grow from a religion serving a female deity view ______________ differently from those created by male-oriented religions.

5. The Bhagavad-Gita shows ______ bringing culture and light to aborigines who are called demons if they refuse and monkeys or bears if they accept.

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