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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Stories about the Goddesses were hardly the innocent childlike ____________ that many stories of them have become.
(a) Fables
(b) Figures
(c) Dreams
(d) Monsters

2. In "The Golden Ass," the Goddess speaks of herself as ___________, manifesting herself in various gods and goddesses.
(a) Oneness
(b) Spirit
(c) Everything
(d) Nature

3. Females seem to invent not just agriculture, but also ______________, according to Stone's findings.
(a) Mathematics
(b) Stars
(c) Writing
(d) Paper

4. ___________ is just another attempt at explaining human existence - yet Western civilization accepts this contrived myth as history.
(a) Genesis
(b) The Prodigal Son
(c) The multiplication of the bread and the wine
(d) Star Goddess

5. ______________ have been found in primitive settlements from Spain to Siberia, hailing from 25,000 BCE.
(a) Goddess books
(b) Male figurines
(c) Willendorf sculptures
(d) Venus figures

Short Answer Questions

1. At some point, the Goddess acquires a male who becomes her lover or consort, but she retains _____________.

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

3. The Mother Goddess provides life and a controllable ____________ to the people who believe in her.

4. Myths that grow from a religion serving a female deity view ______________ differently from those created by male-oriented religions.

5. ____________ worship is described throughout the Middle East in the period of time of 3000 BCE.

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