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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 identify himself to Moses?
(a) As the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
(b) As a burning bush.
(c) As the God of Man.
(d) As a whirlwind.

2. How does a fully-integrated Yahweh/Elohim God appear to Moses?
(a) In a cloud.
(b) In a burning bush.
(c) In a whirlwind.
(d) In an apple.

3. What has the Tanakh always been?
(a) A guide to the godly life.
(b) The story of God's struggle to be polytheistic.
(c) The story of God's inner conflict being resolved into monotheism.
(d) The change of God from monotheism to polytheism.

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

5. Although God is supremely confident, what does he not seem to do?
(a) Ask humankind to praise him.
(b) Ask humankind for repentance.
(c) Plan ahead.
(d) Change his opinion on how to deal with humankind.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what have believers grown accustomed?

2. Who and what does this book reference?

3. To what does the author compare the Biblical writers?

4. What is a "theography?"

5. How is the Hebrew God different from those of Greek mythology?

(see the answer key)

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