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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. How does God seem to be taking up ethical matters?
(a) He has a strategic plan for dealing with ethical manners.
(b) In a zero-tolerance policy.
(c) He does not care about ethics.
(d) On a case-by-case basis.

2. Why does God make the world?
(a) He wants family.
(b) He wants friends.
(c) He wants someone to love.
(d) He wants humankind because he wants an image of himself.

3. What does David do before the ark?
(a) He dances wildly and scantily clad.
(b) He cries.
(c) He argues with God.
(d) He mourns his losses.

4. What does God do as he creates the world and populates it with animals in five days?
(a) He decides what animals to create.
(b) He talks to himself.
(c) He talks to the angels.
(d) He ponders what to make.

5. How does God show his power to Egypt?
(a) He strikes the Eygyptians with ligntening bolts.
(b) He casts a spell on them.
(c) He appears in a burning bush to Pharaoh.
(d) The bloody Passover ritual is performed, the Egyptians first-born sons die, and the Eyptians drown as they pursue the Israelites.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what is Western civilization built?

2. Believers adore God as the origin of what?

3. The creation story resembles what creation myths?

4. How does a fully-integrated Yahweh/Elohim God appear to Moses?

5. What is the order of the Jewish text?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Exodus conclude with Moses constructing?

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

3. What is the first prohibition after the flood?

4. What promise does God keep in Joshua?

5. What are two firsts mentioned near the beginning of the chapter?

6. What is "new historicism?"

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

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

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

10. How is Elijah's "death" different from those of Jacob, Moses, Joshua, and David?

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