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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The creation story resembles what creation myths?
(a) Roman.
(b) European.
(c) Greek.
(d) Mesopotamian.

2. By the time Exodus begins, what has happened to Abraham's descendants?
(a) They have moved to Europe.
(b) They are at war with one another.
(c) They are almost extinct.
(d) They have become innumerable, to the point they are a threat to Egypt.

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

4. Why does the author use the Jewish canon, or Tanakh, for study?
(a) It more clearly shows God's progression from action to words to silence and facilitates in following God's "career."
(b) It is in contrast to the Christian format.
(c) The author is Jewish.
(d) It is in the original form.

5. What does war do to God?
(a) It makes him sad.
(b) It permanently transforms him.
(c) It makes him a better father.
(d) It makes him evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God come to understand that he wants to limit and channel the gift of procreation?

2. What is the purpose of Chapter One, the Prelude, "Can God's Life Be Written?"

3. Who and what does this book reference?

4. What does the Bible show without cover-up?

5. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?

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