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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of Chapter One, the Prelude, "Can God's Life Be Written?"
(a) It examines God's law.
(b) It establishes Jack Miles' religious beliefs.
(c) It establishes what Jack Miles intends to accomplish in this book.
(d) It examines God's history throughout time.

2. 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.

3. Believers adore God as the origin of what?
(a) All animals.
(b) The human species.
(c) All virtue.
(d) The cosmos.

4. How do critics and scholars differ?
(a) How to approach literary characters.
(b) Their beliefs about what is literature.
(c) How they study poetry.
(d) What colleges they attend.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. This Book is about love and marriage.

2. What is the order of the Christian text?

3. Before moving on to the Book of Exodus, what does Miles do?

4. Even the goodness he sees in his own work did not bring God this.

5. To what literary character does the author compare God?

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