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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Jewish and Christian texts cover the same material?
(a) The Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament.
(b) The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
(c) The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Old Testament.
(d) The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament.

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

3. What has the Tanakh always been?
(a) A guide to the godly life.
(b) The story of God's inner conflict being resolved into monotheism.
(c) The change of God from monotheism to polytheism.
(d) The story of God's struggle to be polytheistic.

4. How does God seem to be taking up ethical matters?
(a) He has a strategic plan for dealing with ethical manners.
(b) In a zero-tolerance policy.
(c) On a case-by-case basis.
(d) He does not care about ethics.

5. How does God tell Moses to clear Canaan of its natives?
(a) Genocidal ethnic cleansing.
(b) Keep the women and children and kill the men.
(c) Run them out of town.
(d) Marry them and force them to follow the God of Israel.

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

7. How and why does God create a female?
(a) From the male's brain, because he needs a smart companion.
(b) From the sky, because God does not like birds.
(c) From the dust, because God is lonely.
(d) From the male's rib, because the male is lonely.

8. What is unimportant in Genesis 1, but becomes a matter of shame in Genesis 2?
(a) The couple's nakedness.
(b) The man and woman being different.
(c) The snake in the garden.
(d) The apple.

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

10. How does God show his power to Egypt?
(a) He casts a spell on them.
(b) He strikes the Eygyptians with ligntening bolts.
(c) He appears in a burning bush to Pharaoh.
(d) The bloody Passover ritual is performed, the Egyptians first-born sons die, and the Eyptians drown as they pursue the Israelites.

11. What is different about these two texts?
(a) They are in different orders.
(b) They have different subject matter.
(c) They have varying beliefs.
(d) They are from two different cultures.

12. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"
(a) Torah, "teaching," nebim, "prophets," and ketubim, "writings."
(b) Tyra, "speaker," nebular, "cosmic," and ketchem, "source."
(c) Taliya, "describe," newsome, "interpret," and kettlyn, "evaluate."
(d) Tambor, "muse," nell, "god," and kell, "sanctity."

13. What do both Jews and Christians concede without blasphemy?
(a) All religions are equal and true.
(b) Both Judaism and Christianity are the true religions.
(c) The Bible is full of fictional tales.
(d) The Bible may be appreciated as literature.

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

15. How is David indicted under Deuteronomic Law?
(a) He kills Goliath and gloats about his win.
(b) He tricks Bathseba into marrying her husband.
(c) His behavior towards Bathseba, whom he seduces and her murdered husband, whom he arranged to have killed.
(d) He defies God's law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the problem with enforcing morality in either polytheism or monotheism?

2. What are the three aspects of divine self-discovery?

3. The creation story resembles what creation myths?

4. How does God create a male?

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

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