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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what is Western civilization built?
(a) That all men are created equal.
(b) The belief that God created humankind in His own image.
(c) That Americans are the best.
(d) That one race is superior above all others.

2. What is unimportant in Genesis 1, but becomes a matter of shame in Genesis 2?
(a) The snake in the garden.
(b) The couple's nakedness.
(c) The man and woman being different.
(d) The apple.

3. What can one gain from examining the Bible as a literary biography of God?
(a) Once can learn the truths of the Bible and convert.
(b) Insight into the Western ideal of character without having to subscribe to the religious trappings of Judaism or Christianity.
(c) One can become closer to God and his infinite wisdom and strength.
(d) Understanding of how perfect God is.

4. How does God create a male?
(a) From a rib.
(b) From the sky.
(c) From dust.
(d) From the sea.

5. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?
(a) How did all this feel to God?
(b) What deities were part of this fusion?
(c) How this affected the Jews?
(d) Of what other cultures was the God of Israel a god?

Short Answer Questions

1. How do critics and scholars differ?

2. What is the order of the Jewish text?

3. The Hebrew Bible shows no beginning or end to God, but what does the middle life show?

4. The creation story resembles what creation myths?

5. By the time Exodus begins, what has happened to Abraham's descendants?

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