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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the first century BCE, children born to ____________ are legitimate and respectable and unmarried women are worshiped.
(a) Goddesses
(b) Fertility cults
(c) Married couples
(d) Temple women

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

4. The ____________ scroll describes the Levites' banners, dress, duties, and position in detail, according to Stone.
(a) Joran
(b) Talmud
(c) Korun
(d) Qumran

5. The people of the lands worship both Yahweh and Astarte/Baal for __________ in their lives.
(a) Balance
(b) No reason
(c) Poltical reasons
(d) Double insurance

6. In Neolithic periods, female monarchs rule ____________, according to the findings of scholars.
(a) Divinely
(b) Harshly
(c) Lightly
(d) Theoretically

7. The Hebrew customer of ____________ marriage whereby a widow is assigned to her brother- or father-in-law.
(a) Proper
(b) Sacred
(c) Levirate
(d) Christened

8. Who sees a vision of a mysterious figure at the temple fate who tells of 'filthy things' going on inside?
(a) Moses
(b) David
(c) Ezekiel
(d) Solomon

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

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

11. By Babylonian times, kinds are still appointed by _________ but not put to death, according to Stone.
(a) Abraham
(b) Inanna
(c) Jeusut
(d) Isthar

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

13. Aryan priests despise _______ and present the story of Noah and the ark as relatives who survived the flood.
(a) Goddesses
(b) The Bible
(c) Interbreeding
(d) Abraham

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

15. The _________ regard themselves as racially superior to the conquered peoples which helps to explain other texts.
(a) Hittites
(b) Hebrews
(c) Aryans
(d) Egyptians

Short Answer Questions

1. in around 1930 BCE, ancient customers justify military conquests and marrying the high priestess legitimizes __________ in the eyes of the people.

2. The sexual union between the Goddess and the lover who is young enough to be her son is called _____________.

3. The Levites purposefully misspell and mispronounce __________'s name, turn her into a male, and never picture her alone in order to demean her.

4. Stone believes women were the first to connect ___________ and reproduction and to integrate the reality into religion.

5. On the Nile, the king is killed when his health or his __________ fails, according to Stone.

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