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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. Brother-sister marriage is seen in Egypt in order to give _______ access to royal privilege as international marriages were prohibited.
(a) Women
(b) Men
(c) Daughters
(d) Sons

2. Some priestesses act as _______, providing military and political advice to royalty, though the men begin to outnumber them.
(a) Singers
(b) Scholars
(c) Priests
(d) Oracles

3. Stone discovers that what she thought about sun/moon gods and earth/heaven symbolism is ____________.
(a) Incomplete
(b) A lie
(c) Wrong
(d) Correct

4. The Bhagavad-Gita shows ______ bringing culture and light to aborigines who are called demons if they refuse and monkeys or bears if they accept.
(a) Rama
(b) Indra
(c) Isis
(d) Andu

5. The Adam and Eve myth tells a female children her entire ______ is easily tricked, defiant, and provoking, according to Stone.
(a) Manner
(b) Sex
(c) Soul
(d) Religion

Short Answer Questions

1. ___________ is just another attempt at explaining human existence - yet Western civilization accepts this contrived myth as history.

2. What is the name of the Indo-European group who live directly south of the Hittites in Cicilia?

3. Royal families were found to show that the Egyptian culture was ____________, according to Stone.

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

5. Robertson Smith claims the Semitic religion results from the juxtaposition of ___________ worship and a female kinship system.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Merlin Stone say that society portrays the modern women and her inherent qualities?

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

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

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

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

8. What are some of the freedoms women in classical Greece still get access to?

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

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

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