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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. ___________ is just another attempt at explaining human existence - yet Western civilization accepts this contrived myth as history.
(a) The Prodigal Son
(b) The multiplication of the bread and the wine
(c) Star Goddess
(d) Genesis

3. The Bhagavad-Gita shows ______ bringing culture and light to aborigines who are called demons if they refuse and monkeys or bears if they accept.
(a) Andu
(b) Rama
(c) Indra
(d) Isis

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

5. Indo-European deities are male and are mainly what kind of gods, blazing high in the mountains in fire or lightning?
(a) Stone
(b) Tree
(c) Storm
(d) Thunder

Short Answer Questions

1. In northern Canaan, Adath, the "Important Lady of the _____________" rules in Ugarit in the 14th century BCE.

2. __________, "Lord of the mountains," kills Danu and her son Vrtra, causing cosmic waters to flow, which gives birth to the sun.

3. ___________ figures are everywhere: in fire sacrifices, astral bodies, lightning, skin color, and some of the gods - Brahma, Mithra, and Dyaus Pitar.

4. Even as the males gain control over government in Minoan culture, the Goddess remains supreme and the male is a _____________.

5. Eridu worships a fish or water god, which is consistent with their introducing __________ in their society.

(see the answer key)

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