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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anath buries _____ and avenges him gruesomely, and then allows him to re-enter the world of the living.
(a) Anubis
(b) Baat
(c) Baal
(d) Horus

2. Later in the Bible, _______ becomes a term of rebuke, suggesting Abraham or Abraham's wife was Indo-European.
(a) Hittite
(b) Jewish
(c) Egyptian
(d) Christian

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

4. Klein suggests that home ownership in early societies makes _________ depend on __________.
(a) Females; males
(b) Males; males
(c) Females; females
(d) Males; females

5. In the first century BCE, children born to ____________ are legitimate and respectable and unmarried women are worshiped.
(a) Goddesses
(b) Temple women
(c) Married couples
(d) Fertility cults

Short Answer Questions

1. Yahweh is supposedly going to give the Hebrews a _________, but it is revealed by the Levites that this is already populated and fortified.

2. Stone's question is: What affect does worshiping a female deity and living in a _________ society have on women?

3. The changing of Jacob's name to __________ may suggest they understand their ancestry is symbolic rather than biological.

4. Who charges Inanna with stealing the gifts of civilization from him, according to Stone?

5. Sacred women are found in Sumerian texts. They esteem the Queen of ____ and she in turn protects them.

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