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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Andu
(c) Isis
(d) Rama

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Archaeology indicates that societies revere the Mother Goddess as the supreme __________.

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

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

4. Who is the first prophet of Yahweh, who arrives thousands of years after the Goddess emerges in history?

5. Some scholars suggest that the influence of the Goddess only seems minor because the Goddess has ___________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the Goddess Hatti who is found in Hittite literature as being one of the most important figures?

2. Why are Hebrew women supposed to be inferior to their neighbors, according to the Priest/archaeologist Roland de Vaux?

3. How did Middle East societies look at the Goddess in their ancient times?

4. Who is the Goddess Ninhursag, otherwise known as Ninmah?

5. What are some of the freedoms women in classical Greece still get access to?

6. Describe the battle ax cultures in terms of what their presence was like during their arrival and contact with Goddess-worshiping Middle Easterners.

7. What do love poems of Egyptian times have to say about the Egyptian woman's role in the courtship with a man?

8. What is similar in the Paleolithic and Neolithic figurines of the Goddess?

9. What is the female deity of the time represented as when seem in pictures and in other works of art?

10. Why is the Upper Paleolithic existence of the Goddess speculative at the point of writing this book?

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