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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the problem with enforcing morality in either polytheism or monotheism?
(a) The humans do not listen to their gods.
(b) The gods do not care if their followers are moral.
(c) Neither has a moral code.
(d) In neither system has it proven guaranteed.

2. What does God give to himself as an out from the broken covenant?
(a) "Special things."
(b) "Superficial things."
(c) "Secret things."
(d) "Scary things."

3. What is the order of the Jewish text?
(a) Action to speech to silence.
(b) Speech to action to silence.
(c) Silence to Action to speech.
(d) Action to silence to speech.

4. How does God tell Moses to clear Canaan of its natives?
(a) Keep the women and children and kill the men.
(b) Genocidal ethnic cleansing.
(c) Marry them and force them to follow the God of Israel.
(d) Run them out of town.

5. What is the unifying principle of the Tanakh?
(a) God's fight with the devil.
(b) God's war with himself.
(c) God' love for himself.
(d) God's love of humankind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tribe is the only one to survive the exile as an intact entity?

2. What is the purpose of the second interlude, "Does God Fail?"

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

4. What does prophecy combine?

5. On what is Western civilization built?

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