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

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

3. _____________ is the name given by scholars to Cretan cultural sites on the Greek mainland.
(a) Portos
(b) Athens
(c) Ethos
(d) Mycenae

4. What Goddess is said to be the Goddess of the Southern part of Egypt before 3000 BCE?
(a) Water Goddess
(b) Cobra Goddess
(c) Gold Goddess
(d) Vulture Goddess

5. In northern Canaan, Adath, the "Important Lady of the _____________" rules in Ugarit in the 14th century BCE.
(a) Universe
(b) Royal Family
(c) Royal House
(d) World

Short Answer Questions

1. Indo-European deities are male and are mainly what kind of gods, blazing high in the mountains in fire or lightning?

2. The _____________ Goddess resuscitates her mate, proving she is the ultimate source of life and regeneration.

3. Which Goddess is thought to be the inventor of agriculture, a healer, a physician, and a lawgiver?

4. ___________ figures are everywhere: in fire sacrifices, astral bodies, lightning, skin color, and some of the gods - Brahma, Mithra, and Dyaus Pitar.

5. Various Hatti Goddesses survive the battle of the Hittites, and are known as the __________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the vanguard of the battle ax cultures, as Merlin Stone and others describe them.

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

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

7. What are some of the rights women are given in the Code of Hammurabi?

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

9. Who do women appear as in civil litigation during the times of the Egyptians, according to papyri?

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

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