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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 the author believe God's story deserves?
(a) To be thrown in the trash.
(b) To be considered a work of fiction.
(c) To commemorate the Israelites.
(d) More than the selective preaching it receives.

2. How long does Moses spend on Mt. Sinai?
(a) Four days and nights.
(b) Forty days and nights.
(c) One day and night.
(d) Forty-five days and nights.

3. What does God give to himself as an out from the broken covenant?
(a) "Secret things."
(b) "Special things."
(c) "Superficial things."
(d) "Scary things."

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

5. In the books of Kings what traits come to the fore?
(a) Yah's traits.
(b) El's traits.
(c) Sab's traits.
(d) Baal's traits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the order of the Jewish text?

2. What is understood and not concealed about God?

3. Through the end of 2 Kings, God is never referred to as a king, instead, how does he speak of himself?

4. What does David do before the ark?

5. What must God do to maintain contact with the remnant that survives destruction?

Short Essay Questions

1. What promise does God keep in Joshua?

2. How does God deal with humans?

3. What is the first prohibition after the flood?

4. What does Exodus conclude with Moses constructing?

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

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

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

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

9. What are the "Deuteronomistic History?"

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

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