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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does God come to understand that he wants to limit and channel the gift of procreation?
(a) Through his thoughts.
(b) After creating the earth.
(c) Through man.
(d) After Adam takes a bite from the apple.

2. 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) God's love for humanity and humanities inabiliy to follow God's laws.
(d) To discover where we come from.

3. What can one gain from examining the Bible as a literary biography of God?
(a) One can become closer to God and his infinite wisdom and strength.
(b) Insight into the Western ideal of character without having to subscribe to the religious trappings of Judaism or Christianity.
(c) Once can learn the truths of the Bible and convert.
(d) Understanding of how perfect God is.

4. What does God do as he creates the world and populates it with animals in five days?
(a) He talks to himself.
(b) He talks to the angels.
(c) He decides what animals to create.
(d) He ponders what to make.

5. Where does the worst case of brutality in a brutal era take place?
(a) In the territory of Benjamin.
(b) In Canaan.
(c) In Budapest.
(d) In Jerusalem.

6. With what is God satisfied regarding various nations?
(a) Destroying them.
(b) With manipulating nations like chess pieces.
(c) Assimilating them into the Israelite culture.
(d) Ignoring them.

7. How is the Bible unique?
(a) It has been translated into hundreds of languages.
(b) It is a translated classic, read by only a tiny minority in the original language.
(c) It is the most important book that is in existence.
(d) It is read by people from many cultures.

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

9. What does the Bible show without cover-up?
(a) The purity of the Israelites.
(b) Prophets whose stories compliment one another.
(c) God as a saint.
(d) God as anything but a saint.

10. What does the author believe God's story deserves?
(a) To be thrown in the trash.
(b) More than the selective preaching it receives.
(c) To be considered a work of fiction.
(d) To commemorate the Israelites.

11. What element remains dominant in God through the end of 2 Samuel?
(a) His fatherly qualities.
(b) The Elohim element.
(c) The Baalist element.
(d) His love.

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

13. What are the three aspects of divine self-discovery?
(a) The "father," "lover," and "friend" identities.
(b) The "feared," "ferocious," and "fury" identities.
(c) The "god," "leader," and "interpreter" identities.
(d) The "liberator," "friend of the family," and "lawgiver" identities.

14. Why is the God of Genesis frustrating?
(a) He lacks the kind of past that allows people to get to know one another.
(b) He does not know what he is doing.
(c) He changes his mind frequently.
(d) He is ferocious.

15. How do critics and scholars differ?
(a) How they study poetry.
(b) Their beliefs about what is literature.
(c) How to approach literary characters.
(d) What colleges they attend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through the end of 2 Kings, God is never referred to as a king, instead, how does he speak of himself?

2. How is the Hebrew God different from those of Greek mythology?

3. What is discovered early in the Book of Judges?

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

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

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