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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Believers adore God as the origin of what?
(a) All virtue.
(b) The human species.
(c) All animals.
(d) The cosmos.

2. What is a "theography?"
(a) A study of Theo the Great.
(b) A study comparing theology to biographies.
(c) A study of theologian biographies.
(d) A study independent of both theology and biography.

3. 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 history throughout time.
(c) It examines God's law.
(d) It establishes Jack Miles' religious beliefs.

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

5. What do both Jews and Christians concede without blasphemy?
(a) The Bible is full of fictional tales.
(b) The Bible may be appreciated as literature.
(c) Both Judaism and Christianity are the true religions.
(d) All religions are equal and true.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the plot of the Tanakh?

2. What has the Tanakh always been?

3. Who and what does this book reference?

4. What does humanity reflect?

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

(see the answer key)

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