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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the keynote, "The Image and the Original" provide?
(a) The rationale for a study of God as a complex literary character.
(b) A critique of all the mistakes made by God.
(c) A study of God as a simple and pure character.
(d) A look into one side of God.

2. To what does the author compare the Biblical writers?
(a) Illustrators.
(b) Courtroom witnesses.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) Judges.

3. What is the purpose of Chapter One, the Prelude, "Can God's Life Be Written?"
(a) It examines God's history throughout time.
(b) It examines God's law.
(c) It establishes Jack Miles' religious beliefs.
(d) It establishes what Jack Miles intends to accomplish in this book.

4. What is God's story the key to understanding?
(a) Eastern character by non-Easterners and non-believers.
(b) Western character by non-Westerners and non-believers.
(c) Mesopotamian character by non-Mesopotamians and non-believers.
(d) Asian character by non-Easterners and non-believers.

5. Although his story, previously reserved to Jewish and Christian believers, is the bedrock of what civilization?
(a) Mesopotamian civilization.
(b) Asian civilization.
(c) Western civilization.
(d) Eastern civilization.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Christians move the prophets from the middle to the end?

2. Although many Westerners have lost belief in God, what continues to set them apart from other cultures?

3. What does humanity reflect?

4. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?

5. Who is the protagonist in the Tanakh?

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