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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the author compare the Biblical writers?
(a) Courtroom witnesses.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Illustrators.
(d) Judges.

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

3. What tribe is the only one to survive the exile as an intact entity?
(a) The tribe of Levi.
(b) The tribe of Judah.
(c) The tribe of Benjamin.
(d) The tribe of Joseph.

4. How do critics and scholars differ?
(a) How they study poetry.
(b) Their beliefs about what is literature.
(c) How to approach literary characters.
(d) What colleges they attend.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what promise does God make good?

2. What does God become when Pharaoh legislates that all Israelite boys be killed at birth?

3. What happens to God's plan of establishing a nation peacefully obedient to the detailed moral code he promulgated?

4. What does prophecy combine?

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

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