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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does God not do as he is creating the world and animals?
(a) He does not create light.
(b) He does not feel confident in his creations.
(c) He does not talk about himself or his motivation for the sudden action.
(d) He does not make all the animals.

2. What is unimportant in Genesis 1, but becomes a matter of shame in Genesis 2?
(a) The couple's nakedness.
(b) The snake in the garden.
(c) The apple.
(d) The man and woman being different.

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

4. What does Nathan's oracle suggest as the reason God adopts Solomon rather than David?
(a) God prefers Solomon to David.
(b) God wants to steal Solomon from David.
(c) God wants to comfort Solomon at his father's death.
(d) God does not like David.

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

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

7. After the man and woman are punished, what perpetual punishments are hard and painful?
(a) Childbearing and earning a living.
(b) Raising children and housework.
(c) Cleaning and cooking.
(d) Exercising and working.

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

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

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

11. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?
(a) Of what other cultures was the God of Israel a god?
(b) What deities were part of this fusion?
(c) How did all this feel to God?
(d) How this affected the Jews?

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

13. What Jewish and Christian texts cover the same material?
(a) The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament.
(b) The Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament.
(c) The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Old Testament.
(d) The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the protagonist in the Tanakh?

2. What does God take for granted in the scene between Nathan and David?

3. What is the purpose of Chapter One, the Prelude, "Can God's Life Be Written?"

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

5. How does God seem to be taking up ethical matters?

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