View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ___________ women work in business, hold real estate, lend money, and work as scribes around the time of 2000 BCE.
(a) Naditu
(b) Mittu
(c) Inan
(d) Concubine

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

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

4. The Hebrew scriptures disguise ____________ as the male Ashtoreth and seek to discredit her, according to Stone.
(a) Eve
(b) Lilith
(c) Astarte
(d) Isis

5. The mountain-god ___________ rapes the Goddess' daughter Ninlil who is later said to be his wife, according to older documentation.
(a) Indana
(b) Enlil
(c) Envil
(d) Indru

Short Answer Questions

1. Greek accounts of women defending ancient shrines and expelling invaders may be the basis for ____________ legends.

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

3. What Goddess is said to be the Goddess of the Northern part of Egypt before 3000 BCE?

4. Archaeology indicates that societies revere the Mother Goddess as the supreme __________.

5. The _______________ tablets from the same region of the world as the Genesis story tell a different creation story with the woman as the positive part of the story.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why does brother-sister marriage develop in Egyptian times, according to scholar Dr. Margaret Murray?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 582 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample