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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 did God stop twice from doing?
(a) Arguing with Abraham.
(b) Creating a plague.
(c) Killing David.
(d) Destroying Israel and starting over with Moses.

2. The creation story resembles what creation myths?
(a) Mesopotamian.
(b) Roman.
(c) Greek.
(d) European.

3. How does God create a male?
(a) From the sky.
(b) From the sea.
(c) From a rib.
(d) From dust.

4. How is the Hebrew God different from those of Greek mythology?
(a) He has a wife.
(b) He is peaceful at all times.
(c) He creates a human that is also part god.
(d) He takes no action without thinking of man, has no "adventures," and has no divine companions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God identify himself to Moses?

2. God commissions a reluctant Moses to return to lead his people out of Egypt. How does God reply when Moses asks his name?

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

4. In the books of Kings what traits come to the fore?

5. Believers adore God as the origin of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the god Baal.

2. On what and whose precept is GOD: A BIOGRAPHY written?

3. Under Joshua, what does Israel do?

4. How are the two personalities of God different?

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

6. What is the first prohibition after the flood?

7. What is "new historicism?"

8. How is the Bible different from both saga and classical epic?

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

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

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