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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is different about these two texts?
(a) They are in different orders.
(b) They have varying beliefs.
(c) They have different subject matter.
(d) They are from two different cultures.

2. What is the name of the Hebrew Bible?
(a) The Toutenkamun.
(b) The Tanakh.
(c) The Taliya.
(d) The Torrey.

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

4. To what does the author compare the Biblical writers?
(a) Courtroom witnesses.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Illustrators.
(d) Judges.

5. The Hebrew Bible shows no beginning or end to God, but what does the middle life show?
(a) A progression from silence to violence.
(b) A progression from action to reaction.
(c) A progression from happiness to sadness.
(d) A progression from vigor to quiescence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the plot of the Tanakh?

2. Why do the Christians move the prophets from the middle to the end?

3. Who is the protagonist in the Tanakh?

4. On what is Western civilization built?

5. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?

(see the answer key)

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