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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the purpose of the second interlude, "Does God Fail?"
(a) It interviews various religious authorities on their opinions on whether God has failed them.
(b) It performs a status check on how god has been characterized in the first eleven primarily historical books of the Tanakh, before turning to the prophets and other literary forms.
(c) It gives proof of God's successes.
(d) It criticises God for all his failures.

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. How long does Moses spend on Mt. Sinai?
(a) Four days and nights.
(b) One day and night.
(c) Forty days and nights.
(d) Forty-five days and nights.

9. 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) Understanding of how perfect God is.
(c) Insight into the Western ideal of character without having to subscribe to the religious trappings of Judaism or Christianity.
(d) Once can learn the truths of the Bible and convert.

10. At the end of which character's spectacularly successful career does he deliver his final speech in Shechem, and Israel responds at a pitch of enthusiasm never again reached?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Joshua.
(c) Isaiah.
(d) Jesus.

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

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

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

14. Through the end of 2 Kings, God is never referred to as a king, instead, how does he speak of himself?
(a) As a father.
(b) As a peacemaker.
(c) As a judge.
(d) As a son.

15. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?
(a) How did all this feel to God?
(b) How this affected the Jews?
(c) Of what other cultures was the God of Israel a god?
(d) What deities were part of this fusion?

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to God's plan of establishing a nation peacefully obedient to the detailed moral code he promulgated?

2. What is the Tanakh's one God's two strikingly distinct personalities?

3. How does God show his power to Egypt?

4. What is another name for the Ten Commandments?

5. The creation story resembles what creation myths?

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