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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 the plot of the Tanakh?
(a) The birth of our world.
(b) God's love for humanity and humanities inabiliy to follow God's laws.
(c) To discover where we come from.
(d) God's desiring to have a self-image, struggling with that self-image when it becomes a maker of self-images, and reaching crisis when he tries and fails to conceal his originating motive from a single exemplar of himself.

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

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

4. Although his story, previously reserved to Jewish and Christian believers, is the bedrock of what civilization?
(a) Asian civilization.
(b) Western civilization.
(c) Mesopotamian civilization.
(d) Eastern civilization.

5. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"
(a) Tambor, "muse," nell, "god," and kell, "sanctity."
(b) Tyra, "speaker," nebular, "cosmic," and ketchem, "source."
(c) Torah, "teaching," nebim, "prophets," and ketubim, "writings."
(d) Taliya, "describe," newsome, "interpret," and kettlyn, "evaluate."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do critics and scholars differ?

3. What is God's story the key to understanding?

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

5. What is different about these two texts?

(see the answer key)

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