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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In the books of Kings what traits come to the fore?
(a) Sab's traits.
(b) El's traits.
(c) Yah's traits.
(d) Baal's traits.

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

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

7. What is the plot of the Tanakh?
(a) 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.
(b) God's love for humanity and humanities inabiliy to follow God's laws.
(c) The birth of our world.
(d) To discover where we come from.

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

9. What is the order of the Christian text?
(a) Action to silence to speech.
(b) Silence to speech to action.
(c) Action to speech to silence.
(d) Speech to action to silence.

10. What is the order of the Jewish text?
(a) Action to silence to speech.
(b) Speech to action to silence.
(c) Action to speech to silence.
(d) Silence to Action to speech.

11. What story is told twice and is structurally the same, yet different in the details and mood?
(a) The Flood story.
(b) The Exodus story.
(c) The Pharoah story.
(d) The Burning Bush story.

12. On what promise does God make good?
(a) To love his followers.
(b) To destroy Israel a second time.
(c) To use foreign nations as instruments to punish his erstwhile convenant partner.
(d) To protect his people.

13. What does God take for granted in the scene between Nathan and David?
(a) Nathan and David are friends.
(b) The poor and weak have a prior claim on his protection.
(c) Nathan and David are brothers.
(d) The wealthy and righteous require his protection.

14. What is understood and not concealed about God?
(a) His relationship with Ruth.
(b) His influence on the Prophets.
(c) The set of inner contradictions in God.
(d) His opinion of the Book of Esther.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Before moving on to the Book of Exodus, what does Miles do?

2. To what literary character does the author compare God?

3. What do these references do?

4. The creation story resembles what creation myths?

5. After the man and woman are punished, what perpetual punishments are hard and painful?

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