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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anath buries _____ and avenges him gruesomely, and then allows him to re-enter the world of the living.
(a) Baal
(b) Horus
(c) Baat
(d) Anubis

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

3. The illiterate Northerners adopt two alphabets for their Sanskrit language in which they produce the _____________.
(a) Talmud scripture
(b) Vedas
(c) Dead Sea Scrolls
(d) Bible

4. Because Egyptian myths are cumulative, both Horus and Osiris can fight Set, but only ___________ dies.
(a) Osiris
(b) Isis
(c) Set
(d) Horus

5. ____________ continues to be revered as the bestower of rights to shepherds and kings, suggesting matrilineal rights still apply to royalty.
(a) Astarte
(b) Inanna
(c) Iris
(d) Isis

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first century BCE, children born to ____________ are legitimate and respectable and unmarried women are worshiped.

2. In Shuchinak, "Father of the ________" becomes "Father of the Gods" and later "Protector of the Gods of Heave and Earth."

3. The _____________ are a priestly caste that hoards sacred hieroglyphs for their own sacred purposes, according to Stone.

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

5. Who appoints the female monarchs in the earliest historical and Neolithic times?

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