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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a "theography?"
(a) A study of theologian biographies.
(b) A study independent of both theology and biography.
(c) A study comparing theology to biographies.
(d) A study of Theo the Great.

2. What do both Jews and Christians concede without blasphemy?
(a) The Bible may be appreciated as literature.
(b) The Bible is full of fictional tales.
(c) All religions are equal and true.
(d) Both Judaism and Christianity are the true religions.

3. What is the purpose of the second interlude, "Does God Fail?"
(a) It gives proof of God's successes.
(b) It interviews various religious authorities on their opinions on whether God has failed them.
(c) It criticises God for all his failures.
(d) It performs a status check on how god has been characterized in the first eleven primarily historical books of the Tanakh, before turning to the prophets and other literary forms.

4. At the end of which character's spectacularly successful career does he deliver his final speech in Shechem, and Israel responds at a pitch of enthusiasm never again reached?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Isaiah.

5. How can God's "steadfast love" be translated?
(a) Strong love.
(b) Fatherly love.
(c) Steady love.
(d) A fierce mutual loyalty between liege and vassal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have skeptics found in the Book of Job?

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

3. 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?

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

5. Even the goodness he sees in his own work did not bring God this.

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