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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most often, whose words do the prophets speak?
(a) Jesus'.
(b) Mary's.
(c) God's.
(d) Joseph's.

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

3. To what literary character does the author compare God?
(a) Juliette.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Don Quixote.
(d) Jo March.

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

5. What follows the apocalypse?
(a) A casket.
(b) A crowd of enthusiasts.
(c) A feast.
(d) A definitive divine intervention at the end of time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is discovered early in the Book of Judges?

2. What is inherently unstable in God?

3. Why do the Jew leave the text where it is?

4. What can one gain from examining the Bible as a literary biography of God?

5. Who are the three major prophets?

(see the answer key)

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