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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the mountain which is also given the moniker of the mountain of God in the Bible and in other stories?
(a) Mount Anatolia
(b) Mount Sinai
(c) Mount Olympus
(d) Mount Vesuvius

3. Inanna has been proven to have killed her consort for his ____________, which appears to be a rarity.
(a) Infidelity
(b) Impotence
(c) Arrogance
(d) Intelligence

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

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

Short Answer 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.

2. Who is considered to be the prophet of the tribes and the first prophet of Yahweh?

3. The Bible shows Moses being adopted by __________________ and given a name that is a frequent part of royal names.

4. The _____________ are a priestly caste that hoards sacred hieroglyphs for their own sacred purposes, according to Stone.

5. In some areas, ______________ replaces the actual death of the substitute king, according to Stone.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Lilith in the Hebrew story of her and Adam in the creation myth?

2. Why is it thought that the Canaanites were dispossessed of Palestine by the Hebrews?

3. Why does Gilgamesh spurn the proposal of marriage from Ishtar when she asks him to marry her?

4. What are some of the things the Levites do in order to discredit Ashtoreth?

5. What were the abominations of the Canaanites that made them less than acceptable to the Hebrews?

6. What does the Goddess Anath do as a sign that the Goddess religions are beginning to assimilate Northern ideas?

7. Why do the people in the birthplace of Christianity and Judaism worship two different deities? And which deities?

8. Where do the Hebrews retain their history and preserve it for others to read in the future?

9. What do the Aryans consider about themselves, which is something that extends to this day in some groups?

10. What are the names of the three men who all link the Hebrews with Egypt's Indo-European royalty?

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