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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does God do when displeased by some human action or inaction?
(a) He reacts.
(b) He ignores them.
(c) He plots
(d) He worries.

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

4. God commissions a reluctant Moses to return to lead his people out of Egypt. How does God reply when Moses asks his name?
(a) I AM WHO I AM.
(b) I AM YAHWEH.
(c) I HAVE NO NAME.
(d) I AM YOUR GOD.

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

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

7. What does God become when Pharaoh legislates that all Israelite boys be killed at birth?
(a) For the first time he becomes a father.
(b) For the first time he becomes a warrior.
(c) For the second time he becomes a warrior.
(d) For the second time he becomes a father.

8. What is the Tanakh's one God's two strikingly distinct personalities?
(a) Jacob and Joseph.
(b) Elohim and Yahweh.
(c) Elijah and Matthew.
(d) Abram and Isaac.

9. What character eludes the baby killers, grows to manhood in Egypt, flees, and settles down as a shepherd?
(a) Isaac.
(b) Elijah.
(c) Jacob.
(d) Moses.

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

11. 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) The Bible is full of fictional tales.
(d) All religions are equal and true.

12. What does God do as he creates the world and populates it with animals in five days?
(a) He decides what animals to create.
(b) He talks to himself.
(c) He ponders what to make.
(d) He talks to the angels.

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

14. How is David indicted under Deuteronomic Law?
(a) He defies God's law.
(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 kills Goliath and gloats about his win.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should God fall in love with David?

2. What is discovered early in the Book of Judges?

3. What are the ways David is indicted under Deuteronomic Law?

4. What can one gain from examining the Bible as a literary biography of God?

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

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