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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Stone believes women were the first to connect ___________ and reproduction and to integrate the reality into religion.
(a) Blood
(b) Unity
(c) Love
(d) Sex

4. The _______ were first known as the sacred women of the temples, though the name changes to being more negative in connotation.
(a) Israelites
(b) Palestinians
(c) Kurates
(d) Qadishtu

5. The Levites purposefully misspell and mispronounce __________'s name, turn her into a male, and never picture her alone in order to demean her.
(a) Ashtoreth
(b) Gaia
(c) Astara
(d) Isis

6. Zeus is worshiped on Crete as the son of his mother __________ and in one legend sexually attacks her.
(a) Osiris
(b) Rhea
(c) Astartus
(d) Iris

7. Yahweh may be derived from the Sanskrit meaning ____________, according to some scholars.
(a) Everflowing
(b) Control
(c) Male
(d) Everything

8. In 3000 BCE, _________ men are sacrificed at the grave of Osiris as a part of ritual regicide, according to Stone.
(a) Warrior
(b) Impotent
(c) Single
(d) Red-haired

9. The Bible shows Moses being adopted by __________________ and given a name that is a frequent part of royal names.
(a) A shepherd
(b) A Pharaoh's daughter
(c) A common couple
(d) A priest

10. The __________ at the time of Moses were the first to demand virginity until marriage for all women, according to Stone.
(a) Levites
(b) Hittites
(c) Luvrites
(d) Canaanites

11. Faithful married women face the possibility of losing their husband's ________ and being sent out of his house.
(a) Favor
(b) Money
(c) Attention
(d) Trust

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Hebrews retain little knowledge of the battle between ______________ and the serpent Leviathan, though it is preserved in the Psalms.

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

3. After the division of the Hebrew states, Baal, the storm god, assimilates with the Goddess _____________.

4. Who is the military hero in the tales of Gilgamesh, as the stories continue?

5. The Mesopotamian lamentation festival is connected with the __________ after the jubilation ceremonies of the sacred marriage.

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