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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of Chapter One, the Prelude, "Can God's Life Be Written?"
(a) It examines God's history throughout time.
(b) It establishes what Jack Miles intends to accomplish in this book.
(c) It establishes Jack Miles' religious beliefs.
(d) It examines God's law.

2. What book and chapters of the Tanakh relate a distinct second account of creation?
(a) Genesis 2:4-23.
(b) Exodus 12-15
(c) Exodus 4-12
(d) Genesis 3-6

3. What does the keynote, "The Image and the Original" provide?
(a) A study of God as a simple and pure character.
(b) The rationale for a study of God as a complex literary character.
(c) A look into one side of God.
(d) A critique of all the mistakes made by God.

4. What does God become when Pharaoh legislates that all Israelite boys be killed at birth?
(a) For the second time he becomes a warrior.
(b) For the second time he becomes a father.
(c) For the first time he becomes a warrior.
(d) For the first time he becomes a father.

5. To what does the author compare the Biblical writers?
(a) Courtroom witnesses.
(b) Illustrators.
(c) Judges.
(d) Lawyers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different about these two texts?

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

3. How is the Bible unique?

4. At what might critics scoff?

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

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