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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the plot of the Tanakh?
(a) To discover where we come from.
(b) The birth of our world.
(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) God's love for humanity and humanities inabiliy to follow God's laws.

3. What does God do as he creates the world and populates it with animals in five days?
(a) He ponders what to make.
(b) He talks to the angels.
(c) He decides what animals to create.
(d) He talks to himself.

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

5. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?
(a) Of what other cultures was the God of Israel a god?
(b) How did all this feel to God?
(c) How this affected the Jews?
(d) What deities were part of this fusion?

Short Answer Questions

1. Although God is supremely confident, what does he not seem to do?

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

3. What is God's story the key to understanding?

4. What god is He compared to after his transformation?

5. After the man and woman are punished, what perpetual punishments are hard and painful?

(see the answer key)

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