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

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

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

5. What is the name of the Indo-European group who live directly south of the Hittites in Cicilia?
(a) Indonesians
(b) Porthos
(c) Luvians
(d) Levites

Short Answer Questions

1. One theory is that the woman's ability to produce ___________ so awes men that they worship women.

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

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

4. Which area has communal marriage, according to the writings of Diodorus?

5. Cretan women are _____________ free and enjoy high standing in their society, according to Stone.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does male dominance begin to creep into once female-ruled societies?

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

7. How does the mythological spouse begin to gain importance in the female-based world?

8. During the 18th dynasty in Egypt, women's roles are severely changed - what did they change to and from?

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

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

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