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

2. What do these references do?
(a) They enrich the experience for those who grasp comparison, but do not demand look-up for those who do not.
(b) They do not add to the biography of God.
(c) They make the book more confusing for those who do not know the sources.
(d) They encourage readers to learn more about what is referenced.

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

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

5. What is different about these two texts?
(a) They have different subject matter.
(b) They have varying beliefs.
(c) They are from two different cultures.
(d) They are in different orders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Hebrew Bible?

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

3. To what have believers grown accustomed?

4. What can one gain from examining the Bible as a literary biography of God?

5. What has the Tanakh always been?

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