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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the traits that come to the fore?
(a) Benign and resilient.
(b) Fearsome and powerful.
(c) Ferocious, yet lacking in power.
(d) Supreme power but peaceful.

2. What does the keynote, "The Image and the Original" provide?
(a) A look into one side of God.
(b) A critique of all the mistakes made by God.
(c) A study of God as a simple and pure character.
(d) The rationale for a study of God as a complex literary character.

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?
(a) In order to preserve the tribe's existence among the twelve.
(b) To punish them for disobeying.
(c) They want to show their power.
(d) To get revenge on the Benjaminites.

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

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

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

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

8. Who is the protagonist in the Tanakh?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Job.
(c) God.
(d) Noah.

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

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

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

12. Before moving on to the Book of Exodus, what does Miles do?
(a) He pauses to take stock of what in literary terms makes the unified God of Genesis godlike and different.
(b) He reviews and critiques the Book of Genesis.
(c) He writes his own creation story.
(d) He rebukes the Flood story.

13. What is another name for the Ten Commandments?
(a) The Decalogue.
(b) The Stone Tablet.
(c) The Ten Laws.
(d) God's Rules.

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

15. With what is God satisfied regarding various nations?
(a) With manipulating nations like chess pieces.
(b) Destroying them.
(c) Assimilating them into the Israelite culture.
(d) Ignoring them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Jewish and Christian texts cover the same material?

2. On what is Western civilization built?

3. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"

4. Why do the Christians move the prophets from the middle to the end?

5. What do the Biblical writers do?

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