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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. Various Hatti Goddesses survive the battle of the Hittites, and are known as the __________.
(a) Throne
(b) Guild
(c) Family
(d) Group

2. 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) Block
(c) Astrological
(d) Numerological

3. Robertson Smith claims that in Arabia, all traits of the dominant Goddess are transferred to the _____________ before she is subordinated.
(a) Land
(b) Child
(c) God
(d) Male

4. Who is the Sumerian Queen of Heaven, according to historical scholars and to evidence from the time period?
(a) Inanna
(b) Isis
(c) Astarte
(d) Hecate

5. ____________ continues to be revered as the bestower of rights to shepherds and kings, suggesting matrilineal rights still apply to royalty.
(a) Iris
(b) Isis
(c) Inanna
(d) Astarte

Short Answer Questions

1. ______________ is said to have been Queen Omphale's servile lover, according to Stone.

2. Egypt practices ___________ when they need to determine property and descent in the society.

3. The Adam and Eve myth tells a female children her entire ______ is easily tricked, defiant, and provoking, according to Stone.

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

5. The _____________ invasions weaken the matrilineal tradition and the Dorians make patrilineal succession normative.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the Goddess movement and belief system survive, even though the male deity movement continues to take hold?

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

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

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

6. What are some of the qualities attributed to the Goddess Isis, as found by Diodorus?

7. Early Sumerian tablets associate the Divine Ancestress with particular towns. What are three of these towns' names?

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

9. How does Merlin Stone say that society portrays the modern women and her inherent qualities?

10. What is Eridu said to be the place of when it steps away from the Goddess religions?

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