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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Inanna has been proven to have killed her consort for his ____________, which appears to be a rarity.
(a) Infidelity
(b) Arrogance
(c) Impotence
(d) Intelligence

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

3. Jeh is sexually defiled by the ___________ so she can defile all women who in turn defile all men, according to Stone.
(a) Indras
(b) Goddess
(c) Storm God
(d) Devil

4. Instead of the king being put to death, he is stripped and humiliated in public during the _____________.
(a) Celebration of the Harvest
(b) Mid Summer's Day Events
(c) New Year Festival
(d) All Souls Festival

5. ______________ have been found in primitive settlements from Spain to Siberia, hailing from 25,000 BCE.
(a) Goddess books
(b) Venus figures
(c) Willendorf sculptures
(d) Male figurines

Short Answer Questions

1. As advances in ____________ and domestication of animals clarify the male's role in reproduction, the mythological spouse gains importance.

2. Hat-Hor is symbolized by a ________ with a cobra on her forehead, as the nature of Ua Zit is retained in the culture.

3. At some point, the Goddess acquires a male who becomes her lover or consort, but she retains _____________.

4. In Anatolia, ____________ declares that once a man has slept with a Goddess, he may never sleep with a woman.

5. Hebrew women are inferior to their neighbors because they are needed to bear many __________.

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