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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. What kind of Sumerian writing allows the historians of the day to be able to find literature that was written about history?
(a) Cuneiform
(b) Block
(c) Astrological
(d) Numerological

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) Daughters
(d) Sons

3. Female deities are extolled for their roles as healers, with female priestesses serving as _____________.
(a) Physicians
(b) Assistants
(c) Voodoo doctors
(d) Nurses

4. One theory is that the woman's ability to produce ___________ so awes men that they worship women.
(a) Poetry
(b) Crops
(c) Children
(d) Peace

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Females seem to invent not just agriculture, but also ______________, according to Stone's findings.

3. ______________ is said to have been Queen Omphale's servile lover, according to Stone.

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

5. 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.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who do women appear as in civil litigation during the times of the Egyptians, according to papyri?

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

4. What are some of the rights women are given in the Code of Hammurabi?

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

6. Describe the vanguard of the battle ax cultures, as Merlin Stone and others describe them.

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

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

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

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

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