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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unimportant in Genesis 1, but becomes a matter of shame in Genesis 2?
(a) The snake in the garden.
(b) The apple.
(c) The couple's nakedness.
(d) The man and woman being different.

2. What does God become when Pharaoh legislates that all Israelite boys be killed at birth?
(a) For the second time he becomes a father.
(b) For the first time he becomes a father.
(c) For the second time he becomes a warrior.
(d) For the first time he becomes a warrior.

3. What is the purpose of Chapter One, the Prelude, "Can God's Life Be Written?"
(a) It establishes what Jack Miles intends to accomplish in this book.
(b) It examines God's history throughout time.
(c) It examines God's law.
(d) It establishes Jack Miles' religious beliefs.

4. What is God's story the key to understanding?
(a) Asian character by non-Easterners and non-believers.
(b) Western character by non-Westerners and non-believers.
(c) Eastern character by non-Easterners and non-believers.
(d) Mesopotamian character by non-Mesopotamians and non-believers.

5. What does God do as he creates the world and populates it with animals in five days?
(a) He talks to the angels.
(b) He talks to himself.
(c) He decides what animals to create.
(d) He ponders what to make.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although his story, previously reserved to Jewish and Christian believers, is the bedrock of what civilization?

2. To what have believers grown accustomed?

3. Why is the God of Genesis frustrating?

4. What does the keynote, "The Image and the Original" provide?

5. What is a "theography?"

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