1. What is the plot of the Tanakh?
(a) God's love for humanity and humanities inabiliy to follow God's laws.
(b) To discover where we come from.
(c) God's desiring to have a self-image, struggling with that self-image when it becomes a maker of self-images, and reaching crisis when he tries and fails to conceal his originating motive from a single exemplar of himself.
(d) The birth of our world.

2. How is David indicted under Deuteronomic Law?
(a) He defies God's law.
(b) He tricks Bathseba into marrying her husband.
(c) His behavior towards Bathseba, whom he seduces and her murdered husband, whom he arranged to have killed.
(d) He kills Goliath and gloats about his win.

3. 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 look into one side of God.
(c) A critique of all the mistakes made by God.
(d) A study of God as a simple and pure character.

4. What do these references do?
(a) They make the book more confusing for those who do not know the sources.
(b) They do not add to the biography of God.
(c) They encourage readers to learn more about what is referenced.
(d) They enrich the experience for those who grasp comparison, but do not demand look-up for those who do not.

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