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

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

3. ___________ women cannot engage in business and are killed for losing their virginity before marriage, even if they were raped.
(a) Sumerian
(b) Hebrew
(c) Egyptian
(d) Libyan

4. The _____________ Goddess resuscitates her mate, proving she is the ultimate source of life and regeneration.
(a) Egyptian
(b) Sumerian
(c) Greek
(d) Mesopotamian

5. What do the words 'bala' in Sanskrit, or bull, and 'tura' from Akkadian times mean?
(a) Love
(b) Goddess
(c) Ignorance
(d) Power

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the weaker brother or husband to the Egyptian Goddess Isis?

2. Stone's question is: What affect does worshiping a female deity and living in a _________ society have on women?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What do surviving documents seem to suggest about the writings of priestly scribes during the time of the battle ax warriors?

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

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