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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. ___________ women work in business, hold real estate, lend money, and work as scribes around the time of 2000 BCE.

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

4. The Code of _____________ shows that women retain some of their rights as the times begin to change.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

While the idea of God being a woman is a compelling one, it seems there may not be enough evidence to back this claim up.

Part 1: Why do you think God being a woman is a plausible idea? What evidence is available?

Part 2: Why do you think God being a woman is not a reasonable argument?

Part 3: Do you think clear evidence is necessary in order for the author of the book to convince the reader? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Women were deeply affected, it seems, by the presence of a more matriarchal society and structure.

Part 1: How were women affected by having a matriarchal society?

Part 2: How might women be affected today if the government and all positions of power were to be filled with women?

Part 3: What are the advantages and the disadvantages of a patriarchal society?

Essay Topic 3

The idea of marriage is a slippery one throughout the history of man, with the definitions changing with the times.

Part 1: Why do you think the idea of marriages changes so often in the course of the history of man?

Part 2: Why do you think men and women are able to have multiple partners at different times in history?

Part 3: Do you think the modern definition of marriage is realistic? Why or why not?

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