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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what is Western civilization built?
(a) The belief that God created humankind in His own image.
(b) That Americans are the best.
(c) That all men are created equal.
(d) That one race is superior above all others.

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

3. What is the plot of the Tanakh?
(a) The birth of our world.
(b) To discover where we come from.
(c) 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.
(d) God's love for humanity and humanities inabiliy to follow God's laws.

4. How does a fully-integrated Yahweh/Elohim God appear to Moses?
(a) In an apple.
(b) In a cloud.
(c) In a burning bush.
(d) In a whirlwind.

5. Of what is "the earth shall be full of knowledge of the Lord/as the waters cover the sea" a description?
(a) The peaceable kingdom in Isaiah 11.
(b) The ocean at rest.
(c) Heaven on earth.
(d) God's kingom in Genesis 1.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the unifying principle of the Tanakh?

3. What does war do to God?

4. What book of the Bible has long been a favorite in literary circles?

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

(see the answer key)

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