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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author believe God's story deserves?
(a) To be considered a work of fiction.
(b) More than the selective preaching it receives.
(c) To be thrown in the trash.
(d) To commemorate the Israelites.

2. What is unimportant in Genesis 1, but becomes a matter of shame in Genesis 2?
(a) The couple's nakedness.
(b) The apple.
(c) The man and woman being different.
(d) The snake in the garden.

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

4. What is the order of the Christian text?
(a) Action to speech to silence.
(b) Silence to speech to action.
(c) Action to silence to speech.
(d) Speech to action to silence.

5. How does God seem to be taking up ethical matters?
(a) In a zero-tolerance policy.
(b) He has a strategic plan for dealing with ethical manners.
(c) On a case-by-case basis.
(d) He does not care about ethics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do critics and scholars differ?

2. How does a fully-integrated Yahweh/Elohim God appear to Moses?

3. The creation story resembles what creation myths?

4. Although God is supremely confident, what does he not seem to do?

5. What is the unifying principle of the Tanakh?

(see the answer key)

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