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

2. What does the Bible show without cover-up?
(a) Prophets whose stories compliment one another.
(b) The purity of the Israelites.
(c) God as a saint.
(d) God as anything but a saint.

3. To what literary character does the author compare God?
(a) Don Quixote.
(b) Juliette.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Jo March.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what might critics scoff?

2. Why does the author use the Jewish canon, or Tanakh, for study?

3. Although his story, previously reserved to Jewish and Christian believers, is the bedrock of what civilization?

4. What has the Tanakh always been?

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

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