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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The people of the lands worship both Yahweh and Astarte/Baal for __________ in their lives.
(a) Poltical reasons
(b) Double insurance
(c) Balance
(d) No reason

2. Sacred women are found in Sumerian texts. They esteem the Queen of ____ and she in turn protects them.
(a) Light
(b) Sky
(c) Earth
(d) Heaven

3. At Nimrud, documents show that women still serve as ____________ and magistrates in the 8th century BCE.
(a) Accusers
(b) Judges
(c) Juries
(d) Witnesses

4. What is the name of the idols which are found on hilltops, under green trees, and beside Canaanite altars?
(a) Tablets
(b) Hittas
(c) Stelae
(d) Asherah

5. Who is Abraham's wife who ends up dying at some point of their marriage and who Abraham buries?
(a) Mary
(b) Ruth
(c) Sarah
(d) Lilith

Short Answer Questions

1. _____________ is the name given by scholars to Cretan cultural sites on the Greek mainland.

2. Klein suggests that home ownership in early societies makes _________ depend on __________.

3. In Canaan, women have sex with males in the community who come to honor ____________, according to Stone.

4. Love poems found hint that ____________ women were the ones who did the wooing in relationships, according to Stone.

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

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