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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 is a "theography?"
(a) A study independent of both theology and biography.
(b) A study of Theo the Great.
(c) A study of theologian biographies.
(d) A study comparing theology to biographies.

2. What does war do to God?
(a) It makes him a better father.
(b) It makes him evil.
(c) It makes him sad.
(d) It permanently transforms him.

3. After the man and woman are punished, what perpetual punishments are hard and painful?
(a) Raising children and housework.
(b) Cleaning and cooking.
(c) Exercising and working.
(d) Childbearing and earning a living.

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

5. What is the problem with enforcing morality in either polytheism or monotheism?
(a) In neither system has it proven guaranteed.
(b) The humans do not listen to their gods.
(c) Neither has a moral code.
(d) The gods do not care if their followers are moral.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the Hebrew God different from those of Greek mythology?

2. Why should God fall in love with David?

3. The creation story resembles what creation myths?

4. Why do the Jew leave the text where it is?

5. Although many Westerners have lost belief in God, what continues to set them apart from other cultures?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the "Deuteronomistic History?"

2. What part of Abram/Abraham does God personally control?

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

4. Describe the god Baal.

5. Whose traits does one see in God in 2 Samuel?

6. In Gen. 4-11, how does God the Destroyer feel toward human beings?

7. How does God deal with humans?

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

9. How are the two personalities of God different?

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

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