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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does God become when Pharaoh legislates that all Israelite boys be killed at birth?
(a) For the second time he becomes a father.
(b) For the second time he becomes a warrior.
(c) For the first time he becomes a father.
(d) For the first time he becomes a warrior.

3. What happens to God's plan of establishing a nation peacefully obedient to the detailed moral code he promulgated?
(a) It succeeds.
(b) It fails.
(c) It succeeds somewhat.
(d) It is not as successful as God had planned.

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

5. 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 YOUR GOD.
(c) I AM YAHWEH.
(d) I AM WHO I AM.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does David do before the ark?

4. What do the Biblical writers do?

5. What element remains dominant in God through the end of 2 Samuel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Neil Simon take for granted when he writes the play "God's Favorite?"

2. How is God compared to an immature individual?

3. How do the Israelites respond to Moses leading them in the desert? How does God respond to them?

4. By using foreign nations to punish his people, how is God opening the door to other nations?

5. How does God deal with humans?

6. What belief continues to set Western civilization apart from, for example, the Japanese?

7. What is the first prohibition after the flood?

8. How does the frightful Yahweh act towards the man and the woman after they are punished and before they are expelled from the garden?

9. Under Joshua, what does Israel do?

10. How is Elijah's "death" different from those of Jacob, Moses, Joshua, and David?

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