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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has the Tanakh always been?
(a) The change of God from monotheism to polytheism.
(b) The story of God's struggle to be polytheistic.
(c) The story of God's inner conflict being resolved into monotheism.
(d) A guide to the godly life.

2. How is the Bible unique?
(a) It is the most important book that is in existence.
(b) It is read by people from many cultures.
(c) It has been translated into hundreds of languages.
(d) It is a translated classic, read by only a tiny minority in the original language.

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

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

5. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"
(a) Tambor, "muse," nell, "god," and kell, "sanctity."
(b) Taliya, "describe," newsome, "interpret," and kettlyn, "evaluate."
(c) Torah, "teaching," nebim, "prophets," and ketubim, "writings."
(d) Tyra, "speaker," nebular, "cosmic," and ketchem, "source."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do these references do?

3. What does God become when Pharaoh legislates that all Israelite boys be killed at birth?

4. Believers adore God as the origin of what?

5. What is the Tanakh's one God's two strikingly distinct personalities?

(see the answer key)

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