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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What must God do to maintain contact with the remnant that survives destruction?
(a) He must be powerful.
(b) He must change himself to accept them as they are.
(c) He must act like a warrior.
(d) He must change them.

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

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

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

6. What is the purpose of the second interlude, "Does God Fail?"
(a) It gives proof of God's successes.
(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 interviews various religious authorities on their opinions on whether God has failed them.
(d) It criticises God for all his failures.

7. 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) Jesus.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Isaiah.
(d) Joshua.

8. What has the Tanakh always been?
(a) The change of God from monotheism to polytheism.
(b) The story of God's struggle to be polytheistic.
(c) A guide to the godly life.
(d) The story of God's inner conflict being resolved into monotheism.

9. Where does the worst case of brutality in a brutal era take place?
(a) In Budapest.
(b) In Jerusalem.
(c) In Canaan.
(d) In the territory of Benjamin.

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

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

12. On what is Western civilization built?
(a) The belief that God created humankind in His own image.
(b) That all men are created equal.
(c) That Americans are the best.
(d) That one race is superior above all others.

13. At what might critics scoff?
(a) The idea of studying God in all his glory.
(b) The idea of studying the Bible.
(c) The idea of understanding humans in spiritual terms.
(d) The idea of understanding God in human terms.

14. 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.

15. Of what is there no indication?
(a) That He makes the earth.
(b) That He wants a servant, lover, or worshiper.
(c) That He wants an image of himself.
(d) That He makes insects.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is David indicted under Deuteronomic Law?

2. What is the plot of the Tanakh?

3. What is different about these two texts?

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

5. What is understood and not concealed about God?

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