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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Priestly scribes appear to write out of ____________ motive more than religious fervor about supreme male deities and the institution of kingship.
(a) Ethical
(b) Moral
(c) Personal
(d) Political

2. As Indo-Aryan and Hoite princes and nobles seek to establish themselves, there is continual __________.
(a) Mass executions
(b) Warring
(c) Goddess desecration
(d) Nomadic disruption

3. The Hebrew scriptures disguise ____________ as the male Ashtoreth and seek to discredit her, according to Stone.
(a) Eve
(b) Isis
(c) Astarte
(d) Lilith

4. As advances in ____________ and domestication of animals clarify the male's role in reproduction, the mythological spouse gains importance.
(a) Farming
(b) Breeding
(c) Religion
(d) Government

5. The annual death of the son/lover is connected to the ritual sacrifice of the ____________.
(a) First girl child
(b) Crops
(c) Consort king
(d) First calf

Short Answer Questions

1. Yahweh may be derived from the Sanskrit meaning ____________, according to some scholars.

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

3. ___________ sacrifices are important to the Levite rites as to the Brahmins, according to Stone.

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

5. After the division of the Hebrew states, Baal, the storm god, assimilates with the Goddess _____________.

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