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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the first century BCE, children born to ____________ are legitimate and respectable and unmarried women are worshiped.
(a) Goddesses
(b) Fertility cults
(c) Temple women
(d) Married couples

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

3. What is the mountain which is also given the moniker of the mountain of God in the Bible and in other stories?
(a) Mount Vesuvius
(b) Mount Anatolia
(c) Mount Olympus
(d) Mount Sinai

4. The Hebrew customer of ____________ marriage whereby a widow is assigned to her brother- or father-in-law.
(a) Proper
(b) Levirate
(c) Christened
(d) Sacred

5. The Psalms show Yahweh heaping __________ on the wicked, consuming them with fire, according to Stone.
(a) Wood
(b) Sparks
(c) Ashes
(d) Coals

Short Answer Questions

1. One theory is that the woman's ability to produce ___________ so awes men that they worship women.

2. Who sees a vision of a mysterious figure at the temple fate who tells of 'filthy things' going on inside?

3. Who is Abraham's wife who ends up dying at some point of their marriage and who Abraham buries?

4. The Levites purposefully misspell and mispronounce __________'s name, turn her into a male, and never picture her alone in order to demean her.

5. Calling the practices of the Goddess ___________ invites future scholars to call today's moralistic religion sterility cults.

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