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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the Jew leave the text where it is?
(a) For dramatic effect.
(b) It is the true order and should not be changed.
(c) God asks to have the order kept in its original form.
(d) They adopt the codex as a way of preserving the contents of their ancient scrolls.

2. What does humanity reflect?
(a) The free will the creator bestowed upon humanity.
(b) The beliefs of our ancestors.
(c) The sins and transgressions of those who have passed away.
(d) The multiplicity and unity of its creator.

3. How do critics and scholars differ?
(a) How to approach literary characters.
(b) Their beliefs about what is literature.
(c) How they study poetry.
(d) What colleges they attend.

4. Although his story, previously reserved to Jewish and Christian believers, is the bedrock of what civilization?
(a) Western civilization.
(b) Eastern civilization.
(c) Asian civilization.
(d) Mesopotamian civilization.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what might critics scoff?

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

3. What Jewish and Christian texts cover the same material?

4. The Hebrew Bible shows no beginning or end to God, but what does the middle life show?

5. Believers adore God as the origin of what?

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