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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do both Jews and Christians concede without blasphemy?
(a) The Bible is full of fictional tales.
(b) Both Judaism and Christianity are the true religions.
(c) All religions are equal and true.
(d) The Bible may be appreciated as literature.

2. 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) Of what other cultures was the God of Israel a god?
(b) What deities were part of this fusion?
(c) How did all this feel to God?
(d) How this affected the Jews?

3. What do these references do?
(a) They encourage readers to learn more about what is referenced.
(b) They do not add to the biography of God.
(c) They enrich the experience for those who grasp comparison, but do not demand look-up for those who do not.
(d) They make the book more confusing for those who do not know the sources.

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

5. Believers adore God as the origin of what?
(a) All virtue.
(b) The human species.
(c) The cosmos.
(d) All animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Biblical writers do?

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

3. What book and chapters of the Tanakh relate a distinct second account of creation?

4. After the man and woman are punished, what perpetual punishments are hard and painful?

5. What does God do as he creates the world and populates it with animals in five days?

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