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

2. King Jeroboam earlier in history made golden ________, symbols of the Goddess religion.
(a) Eggs
(b) Trees
(c) Spirals
(d) Calves

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

4. ____________, Adam's first wife, refuses to be sexually submissive and later becomes a demon in stories.
(a) Eve
(b) Lilith
(c) Mary
(d) Ruth

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sacred women are found in Sumerian texts. They esteem the Queen of ____ and she in turn protects them.

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

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

4. Who is Abraham's wife who ends up dying at some point of their marriage and who Abraham buries?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How are 'pagan' ways thought to have entered into King Solomon's kingdom?

4. How do the Aryans present the story of Noah and of the ark?

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

6. What kind of romantic relationships does the priestess of the time take on?

7. What does the term 'levirate marriage' refer to within the context of history?

8. What are some of the ways the word 'qudishtu' is defined during the times of Moses?

9. What are the Levites the first group to demand of women in the community during the time of Moses?

10. What does a Pahlavi text depict Jeh as? How is Jeh described in this certain text?

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