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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?
(a) How did all this feel to God?
(b) How this affected the Jews?
(c) Of what other cultures was the God of Israel a god?
(d) What deities were part of this fusion?

2. To what have believers grown accustomed?
(a) God 's inner anxiety in the way they are drawn to complex human beings more so than the boring "centered" ones.
(b) God's undying love and devotion to humankind.
(c) God's wrath towards those that disobey him.
(d) God's Son, the Messiah.

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

4. The Hebrew Bible shows no beginning or end to God, but what does the middle life show?
(a) A progression from happiness to sadness.
(b) A progression from silence to violence.
(c) A progression from action to reaction.
(d) A progression from vigor to quiescence.

5. On what is Western civilization built?
(a) That one race is superior above all others.
(b) The belief that God created humankind in His own image.
(c) That Americans are the best.
(d) That all men are created equal.

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. Believers adore God as the origin of what?

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

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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