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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Indo-European deities are male and are mainly what kind of gods, blazing high in the mountains in fire or lightning?
(a) Thunder
(b) Stone
(c) Tree
(d) Storm

2. Brother-sister marriage is seen in Egypt in order to give _______ access to royal privilege as international marriages were prohibited.
(a) Men
(b) Daughters
(c) Sons
(d) Women

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

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

5. The ________ tribes leave no record of when or why they adopt a male deity, according to Stone.
(a) Western
(b) Southern
(c) Northern
(d) Eastern

Short Answer Questions

1. __________, "Lord of the mountains," kills Danu and her son Vrtra, causing cosmic waters to flow, which gives birth to the sun.

2. The Mother Goddess provides life and a controllable ____________ to the people who believe in her.

3. At Nimrud, documents show that women still serve as ____________ and magistrates in the 8th century BCE.

4. Who were the light-skinned warriors who encountered the darker-skinned Goddess worshiping people?

5. ___________ women cannot engage in business and are killed for losing their virginity before marriage, even if they were raped.

(see the answer key)

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