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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Isaiah.
(d) Jesus.

2. How is the Hebrew God different from those of Greek mythology?
(a) He has a wife.
(b) He creates a human that is also part god.
(c) He takes no action without thinking of man, has no "adventures," and has no divine companions.
(d) He is peaceful at all times.

3. How does God show his power to Egypt?
(a) He casts a spell on them.
(b) He appears in a burning bush to Pharaoh.
(c) He strikes the Eygyptians with ligntening bolts.
(d) The bloody Passover ritual is performed, the Egyptians first-born sons die, and the Eyptians drown as they pursue the Israelites.

4. What is a mistake God will not repeat?
(a) Creating humankind.
(b) Anger towards his people.
(c) Prophecy.
(d) Arguing with Job.

5. How does God tell Moses to clear Canaan of its natives?
(a) Keep the women and children and kill the men.
(b) Run them out of town.
(c) Marry them and force them to follow the God of Israel.
(d) Genocidal ethnic cleansing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What messages frequently contradict one another?

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

3. What is the order of the Jewish text?

4. To what literary character does the author compare God?

5. God takes notice of problems and acts, but does not reveal this until Isaiah 39.

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