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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Hebrew Bible shows no beginning or end to God, but what does the middle life show?
(a) A progression from silence to violence.
(b) A progression from action to reaction.
(c) A progression from vigor to quiescence.
(d) A progression from happiness to sadness.

2. Why do the Jew leave the text where it is?
(a) They adopt the codex as a way of preserving the contents of their ancient scrolls.
(b) God asks to have the order kept in its original form.
(c) For dramatic effect.
(d) It is the true order and should not be changed.

3. What does God do as he creates the world and populates it with animals in five days?
(a) He decides what animals to create.
(b) He talks to himself.
(c) He ponders what to make.
(d) He talks to the angels.

4. What does the keynote, "The Image and the Original" provide?
(a) A critique of all the mistakes made by God.
(b) The rationale for a study of God as a complex literary character.
(c) A study of God as a simple and pure character.
(d) A look into one side of God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God tell Moses to clear Canaan of its natives?

2. At what might critics scoff?

3. How is the Hebrew God different from those of Greek mythology?

4. To what does the author compare a man who has thrown out his whoring wife, then, after she is gone, realizes he loves her no matter the mistakes she has made?

5. What are the earlier Hebrews careful not to do, although their neighbors would have done this?

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