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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. The female must suffer in pain in ____________ because of the fall of Adam and Eve, according to Stone.
(a) Government
(b) Life
(c) Childbirth
(d) Menstruation

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

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

4. Indo-European deities are male and are mainly what kind of gods, blazing high in the mountains in fire or lightning?
(a) Storm
(b) Stone
(c) Tree
(d) Thunder

5. Myths that grow from a religion serving a female deity view ______________ differently from those created by male-oriented religions.
(a) Womanhood
(b) Learning
(c) Religion
(d) Manhood

Short Answer Questions

1. As advances in ____________ and domestication of animals clarify the male's role in reproduction, the mythological spouse gains importance.

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

3. Females seem to invent not just agriculture, but also ______________, according to Stone's findings.

4. According to the writing "The Golden Ass," what is the proper name of the Goddess?

5. Who were the light-skinned warriors who encountered the darker-skinned Goddess worshiping people?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Hebrew women supposed to be inferior to their neighbors, according to the Priest/archaeologist Roland de Vaux?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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