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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does God do when displeased by some human action or inaction?
(a) He worries.
(b) He reacts.
(c) He ignores them.
(d) He plots

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

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

4. What is the order of the Christian text?
(a) Speech to action to silence.
(b) Action to speech to silence.
(c) Action to silence to speech.
(d) Silence to speech to action.

5. What do these references do?
(a) They make the book more confusing for those who do not know the sources.
(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 encourage readers to learn more about what is referenced.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the protagonist in the Tanakh?

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

3. What can one gain from examining the Bible as a literary biography of God?

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

5. What is a "theography?"

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