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Quiz: God's Secret Agents
The investigation surrounding the leaking of CIA employee Valerie Plame's identity may have come to a climax in 2005, but in the world's religious traditions, spies have a long history. Test your knowledge of covert missions in religious history and mythology.
Q1. His sending of twelve spies into Israel is considered by some to be the earliest recorded spy mission:
1. Abraham
2. Isaac
3. Moses
4. Herod
Q2. This Chinese god spies on families and during New Year's celebrations reports the families' deeds to The Jade Emperor, who then doles out happiness or misfortune to every household based on the report:
1. Monkey King
2. Kwan-yin
3. The Yellow Emperor
4. The Kitchen God
Q3. She was the prostitute who hid two of Joshua's spies in stocks of grain on her roof, enabling the Israelites to conquer Jericho:
1. Rahab
2. Jezebel
3. Sarah
4. Deborah
Q4. Both the Norse god Odin and the Greek god Apollo used this bird as a spy:
1. Eagle
2. Raven
3. Dove
4. Hawk
Q5. In the Hindu epic, the Ramayana, this monkey god was sent to the island of Lanka to spy on the evil Ravana and find out where Sita, Rama's wife, was hidden:
1. Ganesh
2. Vishnu
3. Hanuman
4. Kali
Q6. Some interpretations of the Qur'an purport that these are used as missiles to hit the jinn (evil spirits) who fly in the sky to spy on God's activities:
1. Rockets
2. Shooting stars
3. Birds
4. Angels
Q7. In the book of Judges, Delilah spied on Samson for which group of people:
1. Philistines
2. Hittites
3. Egyptians
4. Sumerians
Q8. She was asked to spy on the Buddha by a group of jealous ascetics who later killed her and tried to frame the Buddha for her death:
1. Ambapâli
2. Sundari
3. Mayadevi
4. Sarasvati
Q9. In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Bhishma urges the King to employ as spies men looking like they are:
1. Idiots
2. Blind
3. Deaf
4. All of the above
Q10. This Celtic god engaged in what some have called the first case of industrial espionage when he was sent to spy on Goibnhu's weapon foundry to find out his smithing secrets:
1. Morrigan
2. Arawn
3. Ruadan
4. Brigit


 

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