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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what literary character does the author compare God?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Jo March.
(c) Don Quixote.
(d) Juliette.

2. 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 have moved to Europe.
(d) They are almost extinct.

3. What do these references do?
(a) They encourage readers to learn more about what is referenced.
(b) They do not add to the biography of God.
(c) They enrich the experience for those who grasp comparison, but do not demand look-up for those who do not.
(d) They make the book more confusing for those who do not know the sources.

4. The Hebrew Bible shows no beginning or end to God, but what does the middle life show?
(a) A progression from action to reaction.
(b) A progression from vigor to quiescence.
(c) A progression from happiness to sadness.
(d) A progression from silence to violence.

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?
(a) How this affected the Jews?
(b) Of what other cultures was the God of Israel a god?
(c) How did all this feel to God?
(d) What deities were part of this fusion?

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God come to understand that he wants to limit and channel the gift of procreation?

2. What does God do as he creates the world and populates it with animals in five days?

3. Why do the Christians move the prophets from the middle to the end?

4. Before moving on to the Book of Exodus, what does Miles do?

5. Why does God make the world?

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