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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does God make the world?
(a) He wants someone to love.
(b) He wants family.
(c) He wants humankind because he wants an image of himself.
(d) He wants friends.

2. How does a fully-integrated Yahweh/Elohim God appear to Moses?
(a) In a whirlwind.
(b) In a burning bush.
(c) In a cloud.
(d) In an apple.

3. What is discovered early in the Book of Judges?
(a) The Benjaminites are all eliminated.
(b) The Benjaminites are overpopulating the planet.
(c) The Canaanites are their friends.
(d) Not all the Canaanites are eliminated.

4. What is the name of the Hebrew Bible?
(a) The Taliya.
(b) The Tanakh.
(c) The Toutenkamun.
(d) The Torrey.

5. Why should God fall in love with David?
(a) Everyone else does.
(b) David is sweet.
(c) David is handsome.
(d) Everyone else hates David.

6. When did God appear more wild and thunderous than any time before?
(a) In Egypt.
(b) In the whirlwind.
(c) In Jerusalem.
(d) On Mt. Sinai.

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

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

9. At the end of which character's spectacularly successful career does he deliver his final speech in Shechem, and Israel responds at a pitch of enthusiasm never again reached?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Isaiah.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Joseph.

10. What is understood and not concealed about God?
(a) The set of inner contradictions in God.
(b) His opinion of the Book of Esther.
(c) His relationship with Ruth.
(d) His influence on the Prophets.

11. 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 AM YOUR GOD.
(b) I AM WHO I AM.
(c) I HAVE NO NAME.
(d) I AM YAHWEH.

12. Before moving on to the Book of Exodus, what does Miles do?
(a) He writes his own creation story.
(b) He reviews and critiques the Book of Genesis.
(c) He pauses to take stock of what in literary terms makes the unified God of Genesis godlike and different.
(d) He rebukes the Flood story.

13. What did God stop twice from doing?
(a) Creating a plague.
(b) Arguing with Abraham.
(c) Destroying Israel and starting over with Moses.
(d) Killing David.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what have believers grown accustomed?

2. Who and what does this book reference?

3. What does God give to himself as an out from the broken covenant?

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

5. What is another name for the Ten Commandments?

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