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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Hebrew Bible shows no beginning or end to God, but what does the middle life show?
(a) A progression from action to reaction.
(b) A progression from vigor to quiescence.
(c) A progression from happiness to sadness.
(d) A progression from silence to violence.

3. What is God's story the key to understanding?
(a) Asian character by non-Easterners and non-believers.
(b) Mesopotamian character by non-Mesopotamians and non-believers.
(c) Western character by non-Westerners and non-believers.
(d) Eastern character by non-Easterners and non-believers.

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

5. What is the plot of the Tanakh?
(a) God's desiring to have a self-image, struggling with that self-image when it becomes a maker of self-images, and reaching crisis when he tries and fails to conceal his originating motive from a single exemplar of himself.
(b) The birth of our world.
(c) To discover where we come from.
(d) God's love for humanity and humanities inabiliy to follow God's laws.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How and why does God create a female?

3. What Jewish and Christian texts cover the same material?

4. After the man and woman are punished, what perpetual punishments are hard and painful?

5. What has the Tanakh always been?

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