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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story is told twice and is structurally the same, yet different in the details and mood?
(a) The Pharoah story.
(b) The Burning Bush story.
(c) The Flood story.
(d) The Exodus story.

2. Before moving on to the Book of Exodus, what does Miles do?
(a) He rebukes the Flood story.
(b) He pauses to take stock of what in literary terms makes the unified God of Genesis godlike and different.
(c) He reviews and critiques the Book of Genesis.
(d) He writes his own creation story.

3. What does God do as he creates the world and populates it with animals in five days?
(a) He talks to the angels.
(b) He decides what animals to create.
(c) He ponders what to make.
(d) He talks to himself.

4. Of what is there no indication?
(a) That He wants an image of himself.
(b) That He makes insects.
(c) That He wants a servant, lover, or worshiper.
(d) That He makes the earth.

5. What is God's story the key to understanding?
(a) Asian character by non-Easterners and non-believers.
(b) Eastern character by non-Easterners and non-believers.
(c) Mesopotamian character by non-Mesopotamians and non-believers.
(d) Western character by non-Westerners and non-believers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Biblical writers do?

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

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

4. How is the Bible unique?

5. The creation story resembles what creation myths?

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