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

2. Priestly scribes appear to write out of ____________ motive more than religious fervor about supreme male deities and the institution of kingship.
(a) Moral
(b) Political
(c) Personal
(d) Ethical

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

4. 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) Isis
(b) Rama
(c) Andu
(d) Indra

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During her six year reign, Queen Athalia reestablishes __________ which angers the Hebrew priest

3. What do the words 'bala' in Sanskrit, or bull, and 'tura' from Akkadian times mean?

4. ____________ worship is described throughout the Middle East in the period of time of 3000 BCE.

5. Hebrew women are inferior to their neighbors because they are needed to bear many __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does V. Klein have to say about the effect of female power on the society of the ancient times?

2. Where does the word, "Hurrian," come from? What is its meaning and its roots?

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

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

5. Since little has survived about the Goddess in Sumerian times, how can one believe the Goddess was important?

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

7. What is the effect the Adam and Eve story has had on the female child, according to the author?

8. What are the three types of evidence which seem to point out the existence of the Goddess in Upper Paleolithic times?

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

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

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