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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Biblical writers do?
(a) They ramble on about stories from the past.
(b) They criticize God.
(c) They testify about God.
(d) They criticize the Israelites.

2. What is a "theography?"
(a) A study of Theo the Great.
(b) A study comparing theology to biographies.
(c) A study of theologian biographies.
(d) A study independent of both theology and biography.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To what does the author compare the Biblical writers?

4. Why do the Jew leave the text where it is?

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

(see the answer key)

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