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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does God indicate his sense of mercy might outweigh his sense of justice?
(a) By allowing the generation after the destruction to have an opportunity to return to him and be restored.
(b) He gives the Israelites multiple chances.
(c) He saves other nations, even though they are not Israelites.
(d) He saves the Israelites.

3. To what literary character does the author compare God?
(a) Juliette.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Jo March.
(d) Don Quixote.

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

5. 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 second time he becomes a warrior.
(c) For the second time he becomes a father.
(d) For the first time he becomes a warrior.

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

7. How does God create a male?
(a) From a rib.
(b) From the sea.
(c) From dust.
(d) From the sky.

8. What can one gain from examining the Bible as a literary biography of God?
(a) Insight into the Western ideal of character without having to subscribe to the religious trappings of Judaism or Christianity.
(b) Understanding of how perfect God is.
(c) One can become closer to God and his infinite wisdom and strength.
(d) Once can learn the truths of the Bible and convert.

9. How does God identify himself to Moses?
(a) As the God of Man.
(b) As the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
(c) As a burning bush.
(d) As a whirlwind.

10. What happens to God's plan of establishing a nation peacefully obedient to the detailed moral code he promulgated?
(a) It fails.
(b) It is not as successful as God had planned.
(c) It succeeds.
(d) It succeeds somewhat.

11. Why does God make the world?
(a) He wants someone to love.
(b) He wants friends.
(c) He wants family.
(d) He wants humankind because he wants an image of himself.

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

13. What does war do to God?
(a) It permanently transforms him.
(b) It makes him a better father.
(c) It makes him sad.
(d) It makes him evil.

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

15. What is God's story the key to understanding?
(a) Asian character by non-Easterners and non-believers.
(b) Western character by non-Westerners and non-believers.
(c) Mesopotamian character by non-Mesopotamians and non-believers.
(d) Eastern character by non-Easterners and non-believers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is there no indication?

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

3. What is the plot of the Tanakh?

4. What did God stop twice from doing?

5. How does God show his power to Egypt?

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