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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do the Jew leave the text where it is?
(a) God asks to have the order kept in its original form.
(b) They adopt the codex as a way of preserving the contents of their ancient scrolls.
(c) It is the true order and should not be changed.
(d) For dramatic effect.

3. Who and what does this book reference?
(a) Cervantes, Joan of Arc, the Arc of the Convenant, and art.
(b) Neil Simon, Oscar Wilde, Louisa May Alcott, Buddhism, and art.
(c) Peter Voulkos, Jon Balestreri, the Sacred Scrolls, and music.
(d) Cervantes, Neil Simon, Oscar Wilde, the Qu'ran, and music.

4. Although many Westerners have lost belief in God, what continues to set them apart from other cultures?
(a) The Puritan work ethic.
(b) The religiocultural legacy.
(c) They speak English.
(d) Humanitarianism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Biblical writers do?

2. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"

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

4. On what is Western civilization built?

5. What is the plot of the Tanakh?

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