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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The _____________ invasions weaken the matrilineal tradition and the Dorians make patrilineal succession normative.
(a) Iranian
(b) Roman
(c) Achaean
(d) Ethiopian

3. ____________, Adam's first wife, refuses to be sexually submissive and later becomes a demon in stories.
(a) Ruth
(b) Eve
(c) Mary
(d) Lilith

4. _________ tells Ezekiel to mark the foreheads of men in Jerusalem who commit abominations so they can be destroyed.
(a) Jereboam
(b) Jeremiah
(c) Yahweh
(d) Solomon

5. Which area has communal marriage, according to the writings of Diodorus?
(a) Libya
(b) Israel
(c) Iraq
(d) Ethiopia

Short Answer Questions

1. Anath buries _____ and avenges him gruesomely, and then allows him to re-enter the world of the living.

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

3. Some priestesses act as _______, providing military and political advice to royalty, though the men begin to outnumber them.

4. The Hebrew customer of ____________ marriage whereby a widow is assigned to her brother- or father-in-law.

5. Who is the wild man of the woods in the story of Gilgamesh who appears and is extravagantly treated?

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