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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the time Exodus begins, what has happened to Abraham's descendants?
(a) They have become innumerable, to the point they are a threat to Egypt.
(b) They are at war with one another.
(c) They are almost extinct.
(d) They have moved to Europe.

2. With what is God satisfied regarding various nations?
(a) Destroying them.
(b) With manipulating nations like chess pieces.
(c) Assimilating them into the Israelite culture.
(d) Ignoring them.

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

4. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"
(a) Taliya, "describe," newsome, "interpret," and kettlyn, "evaluate."
(b) Tyra, "speaker," nebular, "cosmic," and ketchem, "source."
(c) Torah, "teaching," nebim, "prophets," and ketubim, "writings."
(d) Tambor, "muse," nell, "god," and kell, "sanctity."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the unifying principle of the Tanakh?

2. How does God show his power to Egypt?

3. Who is the protagonist in the Tanakh?

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

5. How is God's interaction with Moses different from that with Abraham?

(see the answer key)

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