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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why do the Christians move the prophets from the middle to the end?
(a) For dramatic effect.
(b) It is the true order.
(c) God asks to have the order changed.
(d) To make it less confusing for the reader.

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

5. Although his story, previously reserved to Jewish and Christian believers, is the bedrock of what civilization?
(a) Eastern civilization.
(b) Mesopotamian civilization.
(c) Western civilization.
(d) Asian civilization.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author use the Jewish canon, or Tanakh, for study?

2. What does the Bible show without cover-up?

3. What is the unifying principle of the Tanakh?

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

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

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