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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aryan priests despise _______ and present the story of Noah and the ark as relatives who survived the flood.
(a) Abraham
(b) Goddesses
(c) The Bible
(d) Interbreeding

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

3. Some priestesses act as _______, providing military and political advice to royalty, though the men begin to outnumber them.
(a) Singers
(b) Priests
(c) Scholars
(d) Oracles

4. The _______ were first known as the sacred women of the temples, though the name changes to being more negative in connotation.
(a) Qadishtu
(b) Israelites
(c) Palestinians
(d) Kurates

5. ____________ warns of famine, violence, and destruction for those who hold to the ways of the Goddess.
(a) Jeremiah
(b) Moses
(c) Jesus
(d) Judas

Short Answer Questions

1. Editing of the Hebrew texts takes place over the many centuries, including _______________ by priests.

2. Diodorus of _________ writes respectfully and admiringly about women wielding power in the lands where he travels.

3. Which area has communal marriage, according to the writings of Diodorus?

4. Hebrew women are inferior to their neighbors because they are needed to bear many __________.

5. Later in the Bible, _______ becomes a term of rebuke, suggesting Abraham or Abraham's wife was Indo-European.

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