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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the Bible unique?
(a) It is a translated classic, read by only a tiny minority in the original language.
(b) It has been translated into hundreds of languages.
(c) It is the most important book that is in existence.
(d) It is read by people from many cultures.

2. Why are the virgin daughters of one Israelite town that does not answer the call to massacre the Benjaminites allowed to be raped by the survivors?
(a) To punish them for disobeying.
(b) They want to show their power.
(c) To get revenge on the Benjaminites.
(d) In order to preserve the tribe's existence among the twelve.

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

4. 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 commemorate the Israelites.
(d) To be thrown in the trash.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nathan's oracle suggest as the reason God adopts Solomon rather than David?

2. How is God's interaction with Moses different from that with Abraham?

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

4. Before moving on to the Book of Exodus, what does Miles do?

5. Where does the worst case of brutality in a brutal era take place?

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