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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the ways David is indicted under Deuteronomic Law?
(a) Love, fear of God, kindness, mildness, and care.
(b) Cowardice, adultery, blasphemy, treachery, and gluttony.
(c) Prowess, theft, and threatening and controlling others.
(d) Hate, shame, fear, and murder.

2. What do these contradictions reveal?
(a) A confused God.
(b) Misinterpretations by translators.
(c) All that is required of believers.
(d) A God in distress.

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

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

5. What must God do to maintain contact with the remnant that survives destruction?
(a) He must be powerful.
(b) He must change himself to accept them as they are.
(c) He must change them.
(d) He must act like a warrior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author believe God's story deserves?

2. Although God is supremely confident, what does he not seem to do?

3. Although many Westerners have lost belief in God, what continues to set them apart from other cultures?

4. What is NOT God's motive for creating humankind, making a covenant with Abraham, delivering Israel from Egypt, or driving the Canaanites from the land before them?

5. Why is the God of Genesis frustrating?

(see the answer key)

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