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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the author compare the Biblical writers?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Courtroom witnesses.
(c) Illustrators.
(d) Judges.

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

3. What happens to most of the men in the Book of Ruth?
(a) They die.
(b) They are weak.
(c) They abuse women.
(d) They are in power.

4. 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.

5. What happens to God's plan of establishing a nation peacefully obedient to the detailed moral code he promulgated?
(a) It fails.
(b) It succeeds.
(c) It is not as successful as God had planned.
(d) It succeeds somewhat.

Short Answer Questions

1. The creation story resembles what creation myths?

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

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

4. What messages frequently contradict one another?

5. Although his story, previously reserved to Jewish and Christian believers, is the bedrock of what civilization?

(see the answer key)

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