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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 do these references do?
(a) They make the book more confusing for those who do not know the sources.
(b) They enrich the experience for those who grasp comparison, but do not demand look-up for those who do not.
(c) They encourage readers to learn more about what is referenced.
(d) They do not add to the biography of God.

2. What is the name of the Hebrew Bible?
(a) The Taliya.
(b) The Torrey.
(c) The Toutenkamun.
(d) The Tanakh.

3. How does God tell Moses to clear Canaan of its natives?
(a) Keep the women and children and kill the men.
(b) Genocidal ethnic cleansing.
(c) Run them out of town.
(d) Marry them and force them to follow the God of Israel.

4. 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.

5. Before moving on to the Book of Exodus, what does Miles do?
(a) He pauses to take stock of what in literary terms makes the unified God of Genesis godlike and different.
(b) He rebukes the Flood story.
(c) He writes his own creation story.
(d) He reviews and critiques the Book of Genesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author use the Jewish canon, or Tanakh, for study?

2. At what might critics scoff?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Into what does the Tanakh turn the Israelite's religious experience?

4. How are the two personalities of God different?

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

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

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

8. Under Joshua, what does Israel do?

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

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

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