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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does humanity reflect?
(a) The free will the creator bestowed upon humanity.
(b) The multiplicity and unity of its creator.
(c) The beliefs of our ancestors.
(d) The sins and transgressions of those who have passed away.

3. The Hebrew Bible shows no beginning or end to God, but what does the middle life show?
(a) A progression from happiness to sadness.
(b) A progression from action to reaction.
(c) A progression from silence to violence.
(d) A progression from vigor to quiescence.

4. What does David do before the ark?
(a) He cries.
(b) He mourns his losses.
(c) He dances wildly and scantily clad.
(d) He argues with God.

5. To what does the author compare the Biblical writers?
(a) Courtroom witnesses.
(b) Judges.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) Illustrators.

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

7. How does a fully-integrated Yahweh/Elohim God appear to Moses?
(a) In a whirlwind.
(b) In a burning bush.
(c) In a cloud.
(d) In an apple.

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

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

10. Who and what does this book reference?
(a) Neil Simon, Oscar Wilde, Louisa May Alcott, Buddhism, and art.
(b) Cervantes, Neil Simon, Oscar Wilde, the Qu'ran, and music.
(c) Cervantes, Joan of Arc, the Arc of the Convenant, and art.
(d) Peter Voulkos, Jon Balestreri, the Sacred Scrolls, and music.

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

12. Although God is supremely confident, what does he not seem to do?
(a) Change his opinion on how to deal with humankind.
(b) Ask humankind to praise him.
(c) Plan ahead.
(d) Ask humankind for repentance.

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

14. What does God give to himself as an out from the broken covenant?
(a) "Superficial things."
(b) "Secret things."
(c) "Special things."
(d) "Scary things."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the unifying principle of the Tanakh?

3. How does God identify himself to Moses?

4. With what is God satisfied regarding various nations?

5. How does God seem to be taking up ethical matters?

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