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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ___________ are ruled by an Aryan warrior caste and worship old Indian deities, according to Stone.
(a) Harrians
(b) Indian Goddesses
(c) Hittites
(d) Hurrians

2. 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) Sons
(d) Daughters

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

4. Klein suggests that home ownership in early societies makes _________ depend on __________.
(a) Females; males
(b) Males; males
(c) Males; females
(d) Females; females

5. The Mother Goddess provides life and a controllable ____________ to the people who believe in her.
(a) Food supply
(b) Seasonal pattern
(c) Money supply
(d) Water supply

6. Who is the first prophet of Yahweh, who arrives thousands of years after the Goddess emerges in history?
(a) Abraham
(b) Solomon
(c) Jesus
(d) Joseph

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

8. What do the words 'bala' in Sanskrit, or bull, and 'tura' from Akkadian times mean?
(a) Goddess
(b) Love
(c) Power
(d) Ignorance

9. Which area has the sex roles for society reversed and where a warrior-Goddess is worshiped?
(a) Israel
(b) Ethiopia
(c) Libya
(d) Egypt

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

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

12. Some scholars suggest that the influence of the Goddess only seems minor because the Goddess has ___________.
(a) Many names
(b) No bearing on everyday life
(c) Little power
(d) No control over men

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

14. At some point, the Goddess acquires a male who becomes her lover or consort, but she retains _____________.
(a) Submissiveness
(b) A husband
(c) Precedence
(d) Her God partner

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Even as the males gain control over government in Minoan culture, the Goddess remains supreme and the male is a _____________.

2. The Upper Paleolithic existence of the Goddess is speculative since it precedes ______________.

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

4. What Goddess is said to be the Goddess of the Northern part of Egypt before 3000 BCE?

5. The _____________ invasions weaken the matrilineal tradition and the Dorians make patrilineal succession normative.

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