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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 keynote, "The Image and the Original" provide?
(a) The rationale for a study of God as a complex literary character.
(b) A critique of all the mistakes made by God.
(c) A study of God as a simple and pure character.
(d) A look into one side of God.

2. 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 law.
(c) It establishes Jack Miles' religious beliefs.
(d) It examines God's history throughout time.

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

4. Why is the God of Genesis frustrating?
(a) He is ferocious.
(b) He does not know what he is doing.
(c) He lacks the kind of past that allows people to get to know one another.
(d) He changes his mind frequently.

5. Who is the protagonist in the Tanakh?
(a) Abraham.
(b) God.
(c) Noah.
(d) Job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author believe God's story deserves?

2. What Jewish and Christian texts cover the same material?

3. What do the Biblical writers do?

4. Why do the Jew leave the text where it is?

5. How is the Hebrew God different from those of Greek mythology?

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