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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Astara
(c) Gaia
(d) Isis

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

3. The Psalms show Yahweh heaping __________ on the wicked, consuming them with fire, according to Stone.
(a) Wood
(b) Sparks
(c) Coals
(d) Ashes

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

5. In Anatolia, ____________ declares that once a man has slept with a Goddess, he may never sleep with a woman.
(a) Inanna
(b) Iris
(c) Inara
(d) Osiris

6. Calling the practices of the Goddess ___________ invites future scholars to call today's moralistic religion sterility cults.
(a) Moral-less covens
(b) Breathtaking
(c) Fertility cults
(d) Meaningless

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

8. The changing of Jacob's name to __________ may suggest they understand their ancestry is symbolic rather than biological.
(a) Cain
(b) Israel
(c) Abel
(d) Aaron

9. The sexual union between the Goddess and the lover who is young enough to be her son is called _____________.
(a) Union
(b) Special Coupling
(c) Telmus
(d) Sacred Marriage

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

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

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

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

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

15. ___________ are the core of communities, whence not only religious business, but also all urban and rural activities are directed.
(a) Temples
(b) Homes
(c) Oceans
(d) Washouses

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who were thought to have been dispossessed of Palestine by the Hebrews because of their abominations?

3. ___________ sacrifices are important to the Levite rites as to the Brahmins, according to Stone.

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

5. Instead of the king being put to death, he is stripped and humiliated in public during the _____________.

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