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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the man and woman are punished, what perpetual punishments are hard and painful?
(a) Exercising and working.
(b) Raising children and housework.
(c) Cleaning and cooking.
(d) Childbearing and earning a living.

2. Although many Westerners have lost belief in God, what continues to set them apart from other cultures?
(a) Humanitarianism.
(b) They speak English.
(c) The Puritan work ethic.
(d) The religiocultural legacy.

3. At what might critics scoff?
(a) The idea of studying the Bible.
(b) The idea of understanding God in human terms.
(c) The idea of studying God in all his glory.
(d) The idea of understanding humans in spiritual terms.

4. What can one gain from examining the Bible as a literary biography of God?
(a) Insight into the Western ideal of character without having to subscribe to the religious trappings of Judaism or Christianity.
(b) Once can learn the truths of the Bible and convert.
(c) One can become closer to God and his infinite wisdom and strength.
(d) Understanding of how perfect God is.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what have believers grown accustomed?

2. What is the Tanakh's one God's two strikingly distinct personalities?

3. What god is He compared to after his transformation?

4. What does the Bible show without cover-up?

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

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