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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the plot of the Tanakh?
(a) To discover where we come from.
(b) God's love for humanity and humanities inabiliy to follow God's laws.
(c) The birth of our world.
(d) 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.

3. Although many Westerners have lost belief in God, what continues to set them apart from other cultures?
(a) The Puritan work ethic.
(b) Humanitarianism.
(c) They speak English.
(d) The religiocultural legacy.

4. What is discovered early in the Book of Judges?
(a) Not all the Canaanites are eliminated.
(b) The Benjaminites are overpopulating the planet.
(c) The Benjaminites are all eliminated.
(d) The Canaanites are their friends.

5. At the end of which character's spectacularly successful career does he deliver his final speech in Shechem, and Israel responds at a pitch of enthusiasm never again reached?
(a) Isaiah.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Joshua.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is God's story the key to understanding?

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

3. What is different about these two texts?

4. God commissions a reluctant Moses to return to lead his people out of Egypt. How does God reply when Moses asks his name?

5. The Hebrew Bible shows no beginning or end to God, but what does the middle life show?

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