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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) That Americans are the best.
(b) That one race is superior above all others.
(c) That all men are created equal.
(d) The belief that God created humankind in His own image.

2. What do both Jews and Christians concede without blasphemy?
(a) All religions are equal and true.
(b) The Bible may be appreciated as literature.
(c) Both Judaism and Christianity are the true religions.
(d) The Bible is full of fictional tales.

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

4. To what have believers grown accustomed?
(a) God's Son, the Messiah.
(b) God's undying love and devotion to humankind.
(c) God's wrath towards those that disobey him.
(d) God 's inner anxiety in the way they are drawn to complex human beings more so than the boring "centered" ones.

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?
(a) How this affected the Jews?
(b) How did all this feel to God?
(c) What deities were part of this fusion?
(d) Of what other cultures was the God of Israel a god?

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of Chapter One, the Prelude, "Can God's Life Be Written?"

2. What is the order of the Christian text?

3. Although many Westerners have lost belief in God, what continues to set them apart from other cultures?

4. What is the name of the Hebrew Bible?

5. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"

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