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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Bible show without cover-up?
(a) Prophets whose stories compliment one another.
(b) The purity of the Israelites.
(c) God as a saint.
(d) God as anything but a saint.

3. How does God come to understand that he wants to limit and channel the gift of procreation?
(a) Through man.
(b) After Adam takes a bite from the apple.
(c) After creating the earth.
(d) Through his thoughts.

4. What is the purpose of Chapter One, the Prelude, "Can God's Life Be Written?"
(a) It examines God's history throughout time.
(b) It examines God's law.
(c) It establishes Jack Miles' religious beliefs.
(d) It establishes what Jack Miles intends to accomplish in this book.

5. How does God show his power to Egypt?
(a) He strikes the Eygyptians with ligntening bolts.
(b) He appears in a burning bush to Pharaoh.
(c) He casts a spell on them.
(d) The bloody Passover ritual is performed, the Egyptians first-born sons die, and the Eyptians drown as they pursue the Israelites.

6. To what have believers grown accustomed?
(a) God's wrath towards those that disobey him.
(b) God's undying love and devotion to humankind.
(c) God 's inner anxiety in the way they are drawn to complex human beings more so than the boring "centered" ones.
(d) God's Son, the Messiah.

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

8. How does God seem to be taking up ethical matters?
(a) In a zero-tolerance policy.
(b) On a case-by-case basis.
(c) He has a strategic plan for dealing with ethical manners.
(d) He does not care about ethics.

9. What does humanity reflect?
(a) The sins and transgressions of those who have passed away.
(b) The multiplicity and unity of its creator.
(c) The free will the creator bestowed upon humanity.
(d) The beliefs of our ancestors.

10. God commissions a reluctant Moses to return to lead his people out of Egypt. How does God reply when Moses asks his name?
(a) I HAVE NO NAME.
(b) I AM WHO I AM.
(c) I AM YAHWEH.
(d) I AM YOUR GOD.

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

12. What is unimportant in Genesis 1, but becomes a matter of shame in Genesis 2?
(a) The couple's nakedness.
(b) The apple.
(c) The snake in the garden.
(d) The man and woman being different.

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

14. What is the Tanakh's one God's two strikingly distinct personalities?
(a) Jacob and Joseph.
(b) Elohim and Yahweh.
(c) Elijah and Matthew.
(d) Abram and Isaac.

15. What god is He compared to after his transformation?
(a) Mab.
(b) Bathseba.
(c) Baal.
(d) Buddha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the three aspects of divine self-discovery?

2. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?

3. How does God tell Moses to clear Canaan of its natives?

4. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"

5. How long does Moses spend on Mt. Sinai?

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