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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 Two Kingdoms, Two Writers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant in the Ten Commandments story Author E writes?
(a) Aaron is the one who gets the stone tablets.
(b) Moses defers to Aaron's advice.
(c) Moses is never mentioned.
(d) Aaron plays a significant role.

2. What was clever about moving the capital from Judah to Jerusalem?
(a) Jerusalem was centrally located.
(b) Jerusalem did not belong to any tribe.
(c) Jerusalem was a thriving trade city.
(d) Jerusalem represented a new beginning.

3. With all the people who have read and studied the Bible, what is one thing few of them know?
(a) what languages was it written in.
(b) who wrote it.
(c) where it was found.
(d) how many pages are in it.

4. What does Friedman suggest the combination of the two writers symbolizes?
(a) the reuniting of the Jewish people.
(b) the changes in Jewish thinking.
(c) the destruction of Jerusalem.
(d) the Babylonian captivity.

5. What happened to the first books that suggested the traditional ideas about who wrote the Bible were wrong?
(a) the books became required reading for clergy.
(b) the books were banned or burned.
(c) the books became best sellers.
(d) the books were placed in all libraries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who proposed three historical stages for the development of Israel?

2. What is a characteristic of Author J's writings?

3. What do Henning Bernhard Witter, Jean Astruc, and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn have in common?

4. How many chief priests did David appoint?

5. How does it appear that doublets have been treated to form the Bible?

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