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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 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.

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

3. To what have believers grown accustomed?
(a) God's undying love and devotion to humankind.
(b) God's Son, the Messiah.
(c) God 's inner anxiety in the way they are drawn to complex human beings more so than the boring "centered" ones.
(d) God's wrath towards those that disobey him.

4. How and why does God create a female?
(a) From the male's brain, because he needs a smart companion.
(b) From the male's rib, because the male is lonely.
(c) From the dust, because God is lonely.
(d) From the sky, because God does not like birds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What character eludes the baby killers, grows to manhood in Egypt, flees, and settles down as a shepherd?

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

3. Why is the God of Genesis frustrating?

4. How is God's interaction with Moses different from that with Abraham?

5. What is the plot of the Tanakh?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does God deal with humans?

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

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

4. What is "new historicism?"

5. How do the Israelites respond to Moses leading them in the desert? How does God respond to them?

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

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

8. How are the two personalities of God different?

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

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

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