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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does God tell Moses to clear Canaan of its natives?
(a) Keep the women and children and kill the men.
(b) Genocidal ethnic cleansing.
(c) Marry them and force them to follow the God of Israel.
(d) Run them out of town.

3. What book and chapters of the Tanakh relate a distinct second account of creation?
(a) Genesis 3-6
(b) Exodus 12-15
(c) Genesis 2:4-23.
(d) Exodus 4-12

4. How do critics and scholars differ?
(a) How to approach literary characters.
(b) Their beliefs about what is literature.
(c) How they study poetry.
(d) What colleges they attend.

5. How is the Hebrew God different from those of Greek mythology?
(a) He takes no action without thinking of man, has no "adventures," and has no divine companions.
(b) He is peaceful at all times.
(c) He creates a human that is also part god.
(d) He has a wife.

6. Although his story, previously reserved to Jewish and Christian believers, is the bedrock of what civilization?
(a) Asian civilization.
(b) Eastern civilization.
(c) Mesopotamian civilization.
(d) Western civilization.

7. Believers adore God as the origin of what?
(a) The human species.
(b) All virtue.
(c) The cosmos.
(d) All animals.

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

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

10. How is David indicted under Deuteronomic Law?
(a) He tricks Bathseba into marrying her husband.
(b) He defies God's law.
(c) He kills Goliath and gloats about his win.
(d) His behavior towards Bathseba, whom he seduces and her murdered husband, whom he arranged to have killed.

11. 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) Jesus.
(c) Joshua.
(d) Isaiah.

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

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

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

15. What do these references do?
(a) They enrich the experience for those who grasp comparison, but do not demand look-up for those who do not.
(b) They do not add to the biography of God.
(c) They make the book more confusing for those who do not know the sources.
(d) They encourage readers to learn more about what is referenced.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the Tanakh always been?

2. How does a fully-integrated Yahweh/Elohim God appear to Moses?

3. Why are the virgin daughters of one Israelite town that does not answer the call to massacre the Benjaminites allowed to be raped by the survivors?

4. Although God is supremely confident, what does he not seem to do?

5. What does the keynote, "The Image and the Original" provide?

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