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

2. What story is told twice and is structurally the same, yet different in the details and mood?
(a) The Burning Bush story.
(b) The Pharoah story.
(c) The Flood story.
(d) The Exodus story.

3. Who and what does this book reference?
(a) Peter Voulkos, Jon Balestreri, the Sacred Scrolls, and music.
(b) Cervantes, Joan of Arc, the Arc of the Convenant, and art.
(c) Neil Simon, Oscar Wilde, Louisa May Alcott, Buddhism, and art.
(d) Cervantes, Neil Simon, Oscar Wilde, the Qu'ran, and music.

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

5. What is discovered early in the Book of Judges?
(a) The Canaanites are their friends.
(b) Not all the Canaanites are eliminated.
(c) The Benjaminites are overpopulating the planet.
(d) The Benjaminites are all eliminated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "theography?"

2. What does God become when Pharaoh legislates that all Israelite boys be killed at birth?

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

4. What does the keynote, "The Image and the Original" provide?

5. The Hebrew Bible shows no beginning or end to God, but what does the middle life show?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does God show mercy towards the Israelites after the destruction in Deuteronomy?

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

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

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

5. What is "new historicism?"

6. What does God invite readers to do, at which critics might scoff? Why?

7. How is God compared to an immature individual?

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

9. How do the Israelites respond to Moses leading them in the desert? How does God respond to them?

10. What promise does God keep in Joshua?

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