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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Biblical writers do?
(a) They testify about God.
(b) They ramble on about stories from the past.
(c) They criticize the Israelites.
(d) They criticize God.

2. Why does God make the world?
(a) He wants friends.
(b) He wants family.
(c) He wants someone to love.
(d) He wants humankind because he wants an image of himself.

3. The creation story resembles what creation myths?
(a) European.
(b) Roman.
(c) Mesopotamian.
(d) Greek.

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

5. How do critics and scholars differ?
(a) How to approach literary characters.
(b) How they study poetry.
(c) What colleges they attend.
(d) Their beliefs about what is literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. How and why does God create a female?

2. What is the problem with enforcing morality in either polytheism or monotheism?

3. Before moving on to the Book of Exodus, what does Miles do?

4. What story is told twice and is structurally the same, yet different in the details and mood?

5. Although his story, previously reserved to Jewish and Christian believers, is the bedrock of what civilization?

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