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

2. What is the plot of the Tanakh?
(a) To discover where we come from.
(b) God's love for humanity and humanities inabiliy to follow God's laws.
(c) 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.
(d) The birth of our world.

3. Why do the Christians move the prophets from the middle to the end?
(a) God asks to have the order changed.
(b) It is the true order.
(c) To make it less confusing for the reader.
(d) For dramatic effect.

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

5. Who is the protagonist in the Tanakh?
(a) Noah.
(b) God.
(c) Abraham.
(d) Job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the keynote, "The Image and the Original" provide?

2. To what literary character does the author compare God?

3. What does humanity reflect?

4. What is the order of the Jewish text?

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

(see the answer key)

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