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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is God's story the key to understanding?

2. To what have believers grown accustomed?

3. Believers adore God as the origin of what?

4. How and why does God create a female?

5. How is the Bible unique?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How is God compared to modern actors and Don Quixote?

7. What are the "Deuteronomistic History?"

8. What are three ways in which God is different from the gods of Greek mythology?

9. Under Joshua, what does Israel do?

10. What does Exodus conclude with Moses constructing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Initially after the flood God prohibits humans from killing one another or eating any other creature alive.

Part 1) Do humans follow this rule? Explain.

Part 2) What seems to be God's opinion later on humans killing one another, as well as other living creatures?

Part 3) If one could ask God today his opinion on killing living creatures what do you think would be his response? Why?

Essay Topic 2

What events lead to God becoming Creator/Destroyer/Patron/Warrior? How did Pharaoh force God into becoming a warrior? Why could God not come to a peaceful agreement with Egypt?

Essay Topic 3

Why does God strike up a deal with Satan? How does the Book of Job examine the dark side of God? How does God's biography differ from traditional fables?

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