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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10 - 11 The Sacred Tent, P.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was different after David died and his son became King?
(a) Solomon was peaceful, not going to war like David.
(b) Solomon moved the capital to Beersheba.
(c) Solomon became a greater conqueror.
(d) Solomon held elections among the tribes.

2. What have scholars discovered about many stories in the Bible?
(a) the stories have been over edited.
(b) the same story has often been told twice.
(c) the stories come from ancient folklore.
(d) Bible stories are all allegories.

3. What are the dates Friedman puts on the two writers?
(a) J from 848 and 722 B.C., and E from 922 to 722 B.C.
(b) J circa 780 to 722 B.C., and E circa 800 to 734 B.C.
(c) J from 1200 and 900 B.C., and E from 825 to 721 B.C.
(d) J in the 9th Century B.C., and E in the 10th Century.

4. What are the tribes of Israel conquered by the Assyrians in 722 B.C.?
(a) the last of the Israelis.
(b) the ten lost tribes of Israel.
(c) the remnants of Israel.
(d) the northern tribes.

5. What unusual speculation does Friedman make regarding the Egyptian bondage?
(a) that only the tribe of Levi may have been enslaved.
(b) that Moses did not really lead them out of Egypt.
(c) that the tribe of Levi was left out of the slavery.
(d) that they were not enslaved so much as over taxed.

Short Answer Questions

1. In short, what is the difference in the two different accounts of events in Genesis?

2. Why did one write become designated Author J?

3. When did the early scholars consider that Author D wrote?

4. What is a central part of the Jewish and Christian religions?

5. What is a salt lake and named so because the salt content is too high to support life other than microbes?

(see the answer key)

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