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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 does humanity reflect?
(a) The free will the creator bestowed upon humanity.
(b) The sins and transgressions of those who have passed away.
(c) The multiplicity and unity of its creator.
(d) The beliefs of our ancestors.

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

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God show his power to Egypt?

2. What is the Tanakh's one God's two strikingly distinct personalities?

3. Of what is there no indication?

4. What are the traits that come to the fore?

5. What is God's story the key to understanding?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the god Baal.

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

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

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

5. What does Exodus conclude with Moses constructing?

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

7. How does Miles disagree with systematic theologians and the character and actions of God?

8. What is the first prohibition after the flood?

9. How can one gain insight into the Western ideal of character without being Jewish or Christian?

10. How does the frightful Yahweh act towards the man and the woman after they are punished and before they are expelled from the garden?

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