God: A Biography Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what promise does God make good?
(a) To protect his people.
(b) To love his followers.
(c) To use foreign nations as instruments to punish his erstwhile convenant partner.
(d) To destroy Israel a second time.

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

3. Who has been appointed to protect the Jews in the coming war in heaven?
(a) Michael.
(b) Sab.
(c) Elisha.
(d) Gabriel.

4. How is Mordecai's reaction to the plot of Haman different from the reactions by past Jews in similar situations?
(a) He begs for guidance.
(b) He performs mourning rituals, but does not pray to God for his life.
(c) He repents for his sins.
(d) He prays to God for help.

5. What is NOT God's motive for creating humankind, making a covenant with Abraham, delivering Israel from Egypt, or driving the Canaanites from the land before them?
(a) Anger.
(b) Fear.
(c) Love.
(d) Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can God's "steadfast love" be translated?

2. How is God the loser in the Book of Job?

3. What is another word for solitude?

4. What is an apocalypse?

5. What does war do to God?

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