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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the words 'bala' in Sanskrit, or bull, and 'tura' from Akkadian times mean?
(a) Power
(b) Goddess
(c) Love
(d) Ignorance

3. The Followers of Horus decide that Egypt will be ruled as a ______________.
(a) Matriarchy
(b) Dictatorship
(c) Site of power
(d) Master race

4. According to the writing "The Golden Ass," what is the proper name of the Goddess?
(a) Queen Astarte
(b) Queen Mother
(c) She
(d) Queen Isis

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Goddess is said to be the Goddess of the Southern part of Egypt before 3000 BCE?

2. Who is considered to be the prophet of the tribes and the first prophet of Yahweh?

3. Various Hatti Goddesses survive the battle of the Hittites, and are known as the __________.

4. The Hebrews retain little knowledge of the battle between ______________ and the serpent Leviathan, though it is preserved in the Psalms.

5. What kind of Sumerian writing allows the historians of the day to be able to find literature that was written about history?

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