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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 vigor to quiescence.
(c) A progression from silence to violence.
(d) A progression from action to reaction.

2. 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 Jack Miles' religious beliefs.
(c) It examines God's law.
(d) It establishes what Jack Miles intends to accomplish in this book.

3. Why does God make the world?
(a) He wants humankind because he wants an image of himself.
(b) He wants friends.
(c) He wants family.
(d) He wants someone to love.

4. How and why does God create a female?
(a) From the dust, because God is lonely.
(b) From the sky, because God does not like birds.
(c) From the male's rib, because the male is lonely.
(d) From the male's brain, because he needs a smart companion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Christians move the prophets from the middle to the end?

2. What does God not do as he is creating the world and animals?

3. What does God do when displeased by some human action or inaction?

4. What is the plot of the Tanakh?

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

(see the answer key)

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