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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what literary character does the author compare God?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Jo March.
(c) Juliette.
(d) Don Quixote.

2. How is God's interaction with Moses different from that with Abraham?
(a) He refrains from intervening in Abraham's war but will use his might to assist Moses againt Pharaoh.
(b) He is kinder to Moses than Abraham.
(c) He is more of a father figure to Moses.
(d) He less involved in Moses' life than Abraham's.

3. By the time Exodus begins, what has happened to Abraham's descendants?
(a) They are at war with one another.
(b) They are almost extinct.
(c) They have become innumerable, to the point they are a threat to Egypt.
(d) They have moved to Europe.

4. How long does Moses spend on Mt. Sinai?
(a) Four days and nights.
(b) Forty days and nights.
(c) Forty-five days and nights.
(d) One day and night.

5. What does Nathan's oracle suggest as the reason God adopts Solomon rather than David?
(a) God wants to steal Solomon from David.
(b) God does not like David.
(c) God prefers Solomon to David.
(d) God wants to comfort Solomon at his father's death.

6. The creation story resembles what creation myths?
(a) Roman.
(b) Mesopotamian.
(c) European.
(d) Greek.

7. What is the problem with enforcing morality in either polytheism or monotheism?
(a) The humans do not listen to their gods.
(b) In neither system has it proven guaranteed.
(c) The gods do not care if their followers are moral.
(d) Neither has a moral code.

8. What god is He compared to after his transformation?
(a) Mab.
(b) Bathseba.
(c) Buddha.
(d) Baal.

9. Although many Westerners have lost belief in God, what continues to set them apart from other cultures?
(a) The religiocultural legacy.
(b) The Puritan work ethic.
(c) Humanitarianism.
(d) They speak English.

10. To what have believers grown accustomed?
(a) God's undying love and devotion to humankind.
(b) God's Son, the Messiah.
(c) God 's inner anxiety in the way they are drawn to complex human beings more so than the boring "centered" ones.
(d) God's wrath towards those that disobey him.

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

12. Of what is there no indication?
(a) That He makes insects.
(b) That He makes the earth.
(c) That He wants a servant, lover, or worshiper.
(d) That He wants an image of himself.

13. Why do the Jew leave the text where it is?
(a) God asks to have the order kept in its original form.
(b) For dramatic effect.
(c) It is the true order and should not be changed.
(d) They adopt the codex as a way of preserving the contents of their ancient scrolls.

14. Believers adore God as the origin of what?
(a) All animals.
(b) The cosmos.
(c) All virtue.
(d) The human species.

15. Before moving on to the Book of Exodus, what does Miles do?
(a) He writes his own creation story.
(b) He pauses to take stock of what in literary terms makes the unified God of Genesis godlike and different.
(c) He reviews and critiques the Book of Genesis.
(d) He rebukes the Flood story.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the Bible unique?

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

3. How does God come to understand that he wants to limit and channel the gift of procreation?

4. How does God indicate his sense of mercy might outweigh his sense of justice?

5. 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?

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