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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Greek accounts of women defending ancient shrines and expelling invaders may be the basis for ____________ legends.
(a) Amazon
(b) Goddess
(c) Pyramid
(d) Atlantis

2. Love poems found hint that ____________ women were the ones who did the wooing in relationships, according to Stone.
(a) Egyptians
(b) Libyan
(c) Roman
(d) Greek

3. The Followers of Horus decide that Egypt will be ruled as a ______________.
(a) Matriarchy
(b) Master race
(c) Site of power
(d) Dictatorship

4. What is the name of the Indo-European group who live directly south of the Hittites in Cicilia?
(a) Indonesians
(b) Levites
(c) Porthos
(d) Luvians

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

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

7. Women lose ground in Mesopotamia as the _________ goddesses are relegated to the role of consorts to particular gods.
(a) Ethiopian
(b) Libyan
(c) Sumerian
(d) Egyptian

8. Priestly scribes appear to write out of ____________ motive more than religious fervor about supreme male deities and the institution of kingship.
(a) Personal
(b) Political
(c) Moral
(d) Ethical

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

10. Hittite armies often clash with ___________ in their attempts to try to control Canaan, according to Stone.
(a) Greeks
(b) Egyptians
(c) Romans
(d) Ethiopians

11. ______________ is said to have been Queen Omphale's servile lover, according to Stone.
(a) Hercules
(b) Zeus
(c) Mercury
(d) Artemis

12. The Upper Paleolithic existence of the Goddess is speculative since it precedes ______________.
(a) Pictures
(b) Academic life
(c) Writing
(d) Religion

13. 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) Thunder
(d) Tree

14. Who charges Inanna with stealing the gifts of civilization from him, according to Stone?
(a) Enki
(b) Enlil
(c) Gilgamesh
(d) Indru

15. Stone's question is: What affect does worshiping a female deity and living in a _________ society have on women?
(a) Complicated
(b) Peaceful
(c) Warring
(d) Matriarchal

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Goddess is said to have created everything, including setting the Sun God Ra into the sky?

2. What is another name for the Northern Tribes as they are described in this chapter?

3. Various Hatti Goddesses survive the battle of the Hittites, and are known as the __________.

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.

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

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