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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Believers adore God as the origin of what?

2. What is God's story the key to understanding?

3. What is the order of the Christian text?

4. Why is the God of Genesis frustrating?

5. By the time Exodus begins, what has happened to Abraham's descendants?

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