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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ______________ reflects a political ideology in which a single person rules, while _______________ images the communal attitude.
(a) Monotheism; Patriarchy
(b) Matriarchy; Patriarchy
(c) Monotheism; Polytheism
(d) Polytheism; Monotheism

2. in around 1930 BCE, ancient customers justify military conquests and marrying the high priestess legitimizes __________ in the eyes of the people.
(a) Kings
(b) Religion
(c) Wars
(d) Goddesses

3. In Canaan, women have sex with males in the community who come to honor ____________, according to Stone.
(a) The Goddess
(b) The powers of nature
(c) The Universe
(d) The temple

4. Married or betrothed women who are ____________ are killed for being __________.
(a) Raped
(b) Beautiful
(c) Sexually open
(d) Cheated on

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

6. ____________ warns of famine, violence, and destruction for those who hold to the ways of the Goddess.
(a) Moses
(b) Jesus
(c) Judas
(d) Jeremiah

7. In some areas, ______________ replaces the actual death of the substitute king, according to Stone.
(a) Animal sacrifice
(b) Symbols
(c) Castration
(d) Ritualized suicide

8. The annual death of the son/lover is connected to the ritual sacrifice of the ____________.
(a) First calf
(b) Crops
(c) Consort king
(d) First girl child

9. Who is Abraham's wife who ends up dying at some point of their marriage and who Abraham buries?
(a) Mary
(b) Ruth
(c) Sarah
(d) Lilith

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

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

12. The ___________, an incarnation of the Goddess, takes not a permanent husband, but rather annual lovers or consorts.
(a) Mother
(b) Crone
(c) Virgin
(d) Priestess

13. Yahweh is supposedly going to give the Hebrews a _________, but it is revealed by the Levites that this is already populated and fortified.
(a) Home
(b) Fortress
(c) Promised Land
(d) Sacred space

14. Who is the wild man of the woods in the story of Gilgamesh who appears and is extravagantly treated?
(a) Ishtar
(b) Gilgamesh
(c) Enkidu
(d) Attilla

15. When the worship of the Egyptian _________ comes to Rome, sacred women follow the ancient customs there.
(a) Astarte
(b) Cleopatra
(c) Inanna
(d) Isis

Short Answer Questions

1. The __________ at the time of Moses were the first to demand virginity until marriage for all women, according to Stone.

2. The Hebrew customer of ____________ marriage whereby a widow is assigned to her brother- or father-in-law.

3. Jeh is sexually defiled by the ___________ so she can defile all women who in turn defile all men, according to Stone.

4. The Psalms show Yahweh heaping __________ on the wicked, consuming them with fire, according to Stone.

5. Pagan ways may have entered through King Solomon's 700 woman ________, according to Stone.

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