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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The creation story resembles what creation myths?
(a) Mesopotamian.
(b) European.
(c) Greek.
(d) Roman.

2. What does God do when displeased by some human action or inaction?
(a) He plots
(b) He ignores them.
(c) He worries.
(d) He reacts.

3. 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 almost extinct.
(c) They are at war with one another.
(d) They have moved to Europe.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Hebrew Bible?

2. What is the unifying principle of the Tanakh?

3. What do these references do?

4. What is the order of the Christian text?

5. The Hebrew Bible shows no beginning or end to God, but what does the middle life show?

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