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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On what promise does God make good?
(a) To protect his people.
(b) To love his followers.
(c) To destroy Israel a second time.
(d) To use foreign nations as instruments to punish his erstwhile convenant partner.

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

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

5. Why should God fall in love with David?
(a) Everyone else hates David.
(b) David is sweet.
(c) David is handsome.
(d) Everyone else does.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God come to understand that he wants to limit and channel the gift of procreation?

2. Although many Westerners have lost belief in God, what continues to set them apart from other cultures?

3. What does God give to himself as an out from the broken covenant?

4. What book and chapters of the Tanakh relate a distinct second account of creation?

5. What does humanity reflect?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Neil Simon take for granted when he writes the play "God's Favorite?"

2. How is God compared to modern actors and Don Quixote?

3. What are three ways in which God is different from the gods of Greek mythology?

4. Whose statement does Miles raise at the end of the keynote? What is that statement?

5. How can God's inconsistent behavior be understood?

6. By using foreign nations to punish his people, how is God opening the door to other nations?

7. What is the first prohibition after the flood?

8. What belief continues to set Western civilization apart from, for example, the Japanese?

9. How is God compared to an immature individual?

10. How do critics and scholars differ on their approach to literary characters?

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