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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The changing of Jacob's name to __________ may suggest they understand their ancestry is symbolic rather than biological.
(a) Abel
(b) Cain
(c) Israel
(d) Aaron

2. 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 Sinai
(d) Mount Olympus

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

4. What is the name of the Indo-European group who live directly south of the Hittites in Cicilia?
(a) Porthos
(b) Luvians
(c) Indonesians
(d) Levites

5. In an Iranian tale, __________ is warned that people have sinned, so he should build a vara, or fortress to protect civlization.
(a) Yarus
(b) Rulith
(c) Yima
(d) Akhmed

Short Answer Questions

1. The _____________ invasions weaken the matrilineal tradition and the Dorians make patrilineal succession normative.

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

3. Who were the darker skinned Goddess worshiping people who were seen to be culturally superior?

4. What is the name of the Goddess in Anatolia after 1000 BCE, according to Stone?

5. Egypt practices ___________ when they need to determine property and descent in the society.

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