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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why did the horrible destruction threatened in Deuteronomy 28 have to take place?
(a) God falsely accused the Israelites of breaking his rules but still wanted to get revenge.
(b) God did not want to make a fool of himself by endlessly granting Israel stays.
(c) God could not stop the destruction.
(d) The Israelites deserved it.
2. What tribe is the only one to survive the exile as an intact entity?
(a) The tribe of Levi.
(b) The tribe of Joseph.
(c) The tribe of Judah.
(d) The tribe of Benjamin.
3. On what promise does God make good?
(a) To use foreign nations as instruments to punish his erstwhile convenant partner.
(b) To destroy Israel a second time.
(c) To protect his people.
(d) To love his followers.
4. What is the purpose of the second interlude, "Does God Fail?"
(a) It gives proof of God's successes.
(b) It criticises God for all his failures.
(c) 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.
(d) It interviews various religious authorities on their opinions on whether God has failed them.
5. What is the plot of the Tanakh?
(a) God's love for humanity and humanities inabiliy to follow God's laws.
(b) The birth of our world.
(c) 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.
(d) To discover where we come from.
Short Answer Questions
1. God commissions a reluctant Moses to return to lead his people out of Egypt. How does God reply when Moses asks his name?
2. What character eludes the baby killers, grows to manhood in Egypt, flees, and settles down as a shepherd?
3. How is the Bible unique?
4. What does God become when Pharaoh legislates that all Israelite boys be killed at birth?
5. How do critics and scholars differ?
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