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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How and why does God create a female?
(a) From the male's rib, because the male is lonely.
(b) From the sky, because God does not like birds.
(c) From the male's brain, because he needs a smart companion.
(d) From the dust, because God is lonely.

2. What does war do to God?
(a) It makes him a better father.
(b) It makes him evil.
(c) It makes him sad.
(d) It permanently transforms him.

3. What does the author believe God's story deserves?
(a) To be considered a work of fiction.
(b) More than the selective preaching it receives.
(c) To be thrown in the trash.
(d) To commemorate the Israelites.

4. At what might critics scoff?
(a) The idea of studying the Bible.
(b) The idea of understanding God in human terms.
(c) The idea of understanding humans in spiritual terms.
(d) The idea of studying God in all his glory.

5. After the man and woman are punished, what perpetual punishments are hard and painful?
(a) Exercising and working.
(b) Cleaning and cooking.
(c) Childbearing and earning a living.
(d) Raising children and housework.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Jew leave the text where it is?

2. What is unimportant in Genesis 1, but becomes a matter of shame in Genesis 2?

3. What book and chapters of the Tanakh relate a distinct second account of creation?

4. Believers adore God as the origin of what?

5. Why does God make the world?

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