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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of Sumerian writing allows the historians of the day to be able to find literature that was written about history?
(a) Block
(b) Astrological
(c) Cuneiform
(d) Numerological

3. After the division of the Hebrew states, Baal, the storm god, assimilates with the Goddess _____________.
(a) Astarte
(b) Tammuz
(c) Inanna
(d) Isis

4. Moses and his brother ______________ are both born to Levite parents and Moses is told to separate from the tribe.
(a) Abraham
(b) Aaron
(c) Joseph
(d) Cain

5. Stories about the Goddesses were hardly the innocent childlike ____________ that many stories of them have become.
(a) Monsters
(b) Figures
(c) Fables
(d) Dreams

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the words 'bala' in Sanskrit, or bull, and 'tura' from Akkadian times mean?

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

3. Priestly scribes appear to write out of ____________ motive more than religious fervor about supreme male deities and the institution of kingship.

4. The mountain-god ___________ rapes the Goddess' daughter Ninlil who is later said to be his wife, according to older documentation.

5. The Bhagavad-Gita shows ______ bringing culture and light to aborigines who are called demons if they refuse and monkeys or bears if they accept.

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