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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has the Tanakh always been?
(a) The story of God's struggle to be polytheistic.
(b) A guide to the godly life.
(c) The story of God's inner conflict being resolved into monotheism.
(d) The change of God from monotheism to polytheism.

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

3. What is the unifying principle of the Tanakh?
(a) God' love for himself.
(b) God's war with himself.
(c) God's fight with the devil.
(d) God's love of humankind.

4. Why does the author use the Jewish canon, or Tanakh, for study?
(a) It is in the original form.
(b) It is in contrast to the Christian format.
(c) The author is Jewish.
(d) It more clearly shows God's progression from action to words to silence and facilitates in following God's "career."

5. What does the author believe God's story deserves?
(a) To be considered a work of fiction.
(b) To commemorate the Israelites.
(c) More than the selective preaching it receives.
(d) To be thrown in the trash.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what is Western civilization built?

3. What is the order of the Christian text?

4. What do these references do?

5. What is the order of the Jewish text?

(see the answer key)

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