View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the problem with enforcing morality in either polytheism or monotheism?
(a) Neither has a moral code.
(b) The humans do not listen to their gods.
(c) In neither system has it proven guaranteed.
(d) The gods do not care if their followers are moral.

2. What is the purpose of the second interlude, "Does God Fail?"
(a) It gives proof of God's successes.
(b) It performs a status check on how god has been characterized in the first eleven primarily historical books of the Tanakh, before turning to the prophets and other literary forms.
(c) It criticises God for all his failures.
(d) It interviews various religious authorities on their opinions on whether God has failed them.

3. What must God do to maintain contact with the remnant that survives destruction?
(a) He must act like a warrior.
(b) He must be powerful.
(c) He must change himself to accept them as they are.
(d) He must change them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God identify himself to Moses?

2. What is not found in prophecy?

3. In Isaiah God is holy because of what, rather than power?

4. What are the traits that come to the fore?

5. Why do the Christians move the prophets from the middle to the end?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 331 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample