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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does God create a male?
(a) From the sky.
(b) From the sea.
(c) From a rib.
(d) From dust.

2. What does the keynote, "The Image and the Original" provide?
(a) A critique of all the mistakes made by God.
(b) A look into one side of God.
(c) The rationale for a study of God as a complex literary character.
(d) A study of God as a simple and pure character.

3. How does God come to understand that he wants to limit and channel the gift of procreation?
(a) Through his thoughts.
(b) After creating the earth.
(c) After Adam takes a bite from the apple.
(d) Through man.

4. What is the Tanakh's one God's two strikingly distinct personalities?
(a) Elohim and Yahweh.
(b) Elijah and Matthew.
(c) Abram and Isaac.
(d) Jacob and Joseph.

5. Before moving on to the Book of Exodus, what does Miles do?
(a) He reviews and critiques the Book of Genesis.
(b) He rebukes the Flood story.
(c) He writes his own creation story.
(d) He pauses to take stock of what in literary terms makes the unified God of Genesis godlike and different.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does war do to God?

2. What is the plot of the Tanakh?

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

4. What does humanity reflect?

5. Of what is there no indication?

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