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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Bible show without cover-up?
(a) The purity of the Israelites.
(b) God as anything but a saint.
(c) God as a saint.
(d) Prophets whose stories compliment one another.

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

3. What is understood and not concealed about God?
(a) The set of inner contradictions in God.
(b) His relationship with Ruth.
(c) His influence on the Prophets.
(d) His opinion of the Book of Esther.

4. What does war do to God?
(a) It makes him evil.
(b) It makes him a better father.
(c) It permanently transforms him.
(d) It makes him sad.

5. What does the author believe God's story deserves?
(a) To be considered a work of fiction.
(b) To be thrown in the trash.
(c) More than the selective preaching it receives.
(d) To commemorate the Israelites.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do both Jews and Christians concede without blasphemy?

2. What do these references do?

3. What is the purpose of Chapter One, the Prelude, "Can God's Life Be Written?"

4. The creation story resembles what creation myths?

5. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?

(see the answer key)

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