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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why is the God of Genesis frustrating?
(a) He changes his mind frequently.
(b) He lacks the kind of past that allows people to get to know one another.
(c) He is ferocious.
(d) He does not know what he is doing.

4. What is understood and not concealed about God?
(a) His opinion of the Book of Esther.
(b) The set of inner contradictions in God.
(c) His influence on the Prophets.
(d) His relationship with Ruth.

5. Believers adore God as the origin of what?
(a) All virtue.
(b) The human species.
(c) All animals.
(d) The cosmos.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God tell Moses to clear Canaan of its natives?

2. How do critics and scholars differ?

3. What does humanity reflect?

4. What story is told twice and is structurally the same, yet different in the details and mood?

5. What is the order of the Christian text?

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