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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) God's love for humanity and humanities inabiliy to follow God's laws.
(c) To discover where we come from.
(d) The birth of our world.

2. Through the end of 2 Kings, God is never referred to as a king, instead, how does he speak of himself?
(a) As a peacemaker.
(b) As a son.
(c) As a father.
(d) As a judge.

3. What god is He compared to after his transformation?
(a) Mab.
(b) Buddha.
(c) Bathseba.
(d) Baal.

4. What are the three aspects of divine self-discovery?
(a) The "liberator," "friend of the family," and "lawgiver" identities.
(b) The "god," "leader," and "interpreter" identities.
(c) The "feared," "ferocious," and "fury" identities.
(d) The "father," "lover," and "friend" identities.

5. What is the Tanakh's one God's two strikingly distinct personalities?
(a) Elijah and Matthew.
(b) Abram and Isaac.
(c) Elohim and Yahweh.
(d) Jacob and Joseph.

Short Answer Questions

1. The creation story resembles what creation myths?

2. What is different about these two texts?

3. What does humanity reflect?

4. Why should God fall in love with David?

5. What is the purpose of Chapter One, the Prelude, "Can God's Life Be Written?"

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