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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what is Western civilization built?
(a) The belief that God created humankind in His own image.
(b) That all men are created equal.
(c) That one race is superior above all others.
(d) That Americans are the best.

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

3. What Jewish and Christian texts cover the same material?
(a) The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Old Testament.
(b) The Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament.
(c) The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament.
(d) The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

4. What is the unifying principle of the Tanakh?
(a) God's fight with the devil.
(b) God's war with himself.
(c) God' love for himself.
(d) God's love of humankind.

5. What does the Bible show without cover-up?
(a) God as anything but a saint.
(b) God as a saint.
(c) The purity of the Israelites.
(d) Prophets whose stories compliment one another.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"

2. What do the Biblical writers do?

3. Although his story, previously reserved to Jewish and Christian believers, is the bedrock of what civilization?

4. How do critics and scholars differ?

5. What is the order of the Jewish text?

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