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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the keynote, "The Image and the Original" provide?
(a) A study of God as a simple and pure character.
(b) The rationale for a study of God as a complex literary character.
(c) A look into one side of God.
(d) A critique of all the mistakes made by God.

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

4. How does God indicate his sense of mercy might outweigh his sense of justice?
(a) By allowing the generation after the destruction to have an opportunity to return to him and be restored.
(b) He gives the Israelites multiple chances.
(c) He saves the Israelites.
(d) He saves other nations, even though they are not Israelites.

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

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

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

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

9. What are the traits that come to the fore?
(a) Supreme power but peaceful.
(b) Benign and resilient.
(c) Ferocious, yet lacking in power.
(d) Fearsome and powerful.

10. 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) They speak English.
(d) Humanitarianism.

11. What does war do to God?
(a) It makes him sad.
(b) It permanently transforms him.
(c) It makes him a better father.
(d) It makes him evil.

12. Why did the horrible destruction threatened in Deuteronomy 28 have to take place?
(a) The Israelites deserved it.
(b) God did not want to make a fool of himself by endlessly granting Israel stays.
(c) God falsely accused the Israelites of breaking his rules but still wanted to get revenge.
(d) God could not stop the destruction.

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

14. Why does the author use the Jewish canon, or Tanakh, for study?
(a) It more clearly shows God's progression from action to words to silence and facilitates in following God's "career."
(b) The author is Jewish.
(c) It is in contrast to the Christian format.
(d) It is in the original form.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. God commissions a reluctant Moses to return to lead his people out of Egypt. How does God reply when Moses asks his name?

2. What do these references do?

3. By the time Exodus begins, what has happened to Abraham's descendants?

4. Why does God make the world?

5. What is unimportant in Genesis 1, but becomes a matter of shame in Genesis 2?

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