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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What might happen if a man were to sleep with another woman after having slept with a Goddess?
(a) The woman would die
(b) The Goddess' powers could be transferred to someone else
(c) The Goddess would die
(d) The man could die

4. _________ tells Ezekiel to mark the foreheads of men in Jerusalem who commit abominations so they can be destroyed.
(a) Jeremiah
(b) Solomon
(c) Yahweh
(d) Jereboam

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

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

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

8. ___________ sacrifices are important to the Levite rites as to the Brahmins, according to Stone.
(a) Virgin
(b) Weapon
(c) Fire
(d) Goat

9. Sacred women are found in Sumerian texts. They esteem the Queen of ____ and she in turn protects them.
(a) Sky
(b) Light
(c) Heaven
(d) Earth

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Canaan, women have sex with males in the community who come to honor ____________, according to Stone.

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

4. Editing of the Hebrew texts takes place over the many centuries, including _______________ by priests.

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

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