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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the Bible unique?
(a) It is read by people from many cultures.
(b) It has been translated into hundreds of languages.
(c) It is the most important book that is in existence.
(d) It is a translated classic, read by only a tiny minority in the original language.

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

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

4. What is the order of the Christian text?
(a) Action to speech to silence.
(b) Speech to action to silence.
(c) Action to silence to speech.
(d) Silence to speech to action.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does God do when displeased by some human action or inaction?

2. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"

3. To what have believers grown accustomed?

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

5. Why does the author use the Jewish canon, or Tanakh, for study?

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