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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Royal families were found to show that the Egyptian culture was ____________, according to Stone.
(a) Spiritual
(b) Matrilineal
(c) Disorganized
(d) Religion-based

2. Yahweh is supposedly going to give the Hebrews a _________, but it is revealed by the Levites that this is already populated and fortified.
(a) Sacred space
(b) Promised Land
(c) Home
(d) Fortress

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 Sinai
(b) Mount Anatolia
(c) Mount Vesuvius
(d) Mount Olympus

4. When Moses is done writing Yahweh's laws, he gives them to the ______ to place in the Ark of the Covenant.
(a) Egyptians
(b) Hittities
(c) Levites
(d) Ethiopians

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The __________ at the time of Moses were the first to demand virginity until marriage for all women, according to Stone.

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

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

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

5. It appears that the critical element is matrilineal descent of name and ___________ rather than women in power.

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