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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. At what might critics scoff?
(a) The idea of understanding humans in spiritual terms.
(b) The idea of understanding God in human terms.
(c) The idea of studying the Bible.
(d) The idea of studying God in all his glory.

2. What character eludes the baby killers, grows to manhood in Egypt, flees, and settles down as a shepherd?
(a) Isaac.
(b) Elijah.
(c) Jacob.
(d) Moses.

3. What is the purpose of Chapter One, the Prelude, "Can God's Life Be Written?"
(a) It examines God's law.
(b) It examines God's history throughout time.
(c) It establishes what Jack Miles intends to accomplish in this book.
(d) It establishes Jack Miles' religious beliefs.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is God satisfied regarding various nations?

2. What is the purpose of the second interlude, "Does God Fail?"

3. What does Nathan's oracle suggest as the reason God adopts Solomon rather than David?

4. After the man and woman are punished, what perpetual punishments are hard and painful?

5. What does David do before the ark?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What promise does God keep in Joshua?

3. What is the first prohibition after the flood?

4. How does God deal with humans?

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

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

7. What is "new historicism?"

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

9. Under Joshua, what does Israel do?

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

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