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

2. What is the Tanakh's one God's two strikingly distinct personalities?
(a) Elijah and Matthew.
(b) Elohim and Yahweh.
(c) Abram and Isaac.
(d) Jacob and Joseph.

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

4. Why do the Jew leave the text where it is?
(a) God asks to have the order kept in its original form.
(b) For dramatic effect.
(c) They adopt the codex as a way of preserving the contents of their ancient scrolls.
(d) It is the true order and should not be changed.

5. What is different about these two texts?
(a) They are in different orders.
(b) They have different subject matter.
(c) They have varying beliefs.
(d) They are from two different cultures.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what does the author compare the Biblical writers?

3. Who is the protagonist in the Tanakh?

4. What does God not do as he is creating the world and animals?

5. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"

(see the answer key)

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