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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Biblical writers do?
(a) They criticize God.
(b) They ramble on about stories from the past.
(c) They criticize the Israelites.
(d) They testify about God.

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

3. What does God do when displeased by some human action or inaction?
(a) He plots
(b) He reacts.
(c) He ignores them.
(d) He worries.

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

5. Although God is supremely confident, what does he not seem to do?
(a) Ask humankind for repentance.
(b) Change his opinion on how to deal with humankind.
(c) Ask humankind to praise him.
(d) Plan ahead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the protagonist in the Tanakh?

2. How does God indicate his sense of mercy might outweigh his sense of justice?

3. Why is the God of Genesis frustrating?

4. In the books of Kings what traits come to the fore?

5. What must God do to maintain contact with the remnant that survives destruction?

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