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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 The World That Produced the Bible: 1200-722 B.C..

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Spinoza point out about Moses being called "the humblest man on Earth"?
(a) it is a strange thing to say about Moses.
(b) it is a lie.
(c) it shows that Moses wrote the first five books.
(d) it is not something he would call himself.

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

4. Why is the authorship of the Bible a comparatively recent field of study?
(a) for centuries the authorship was a guarded secret.
(b) for centuries no one really read the Bible.
(c) for centuries people never read the Bible.
(d) for centuries the clergy accepted the pat answers.

5. Why do we know so little about the Hebrews prior to 1200 B.C.?
(a) no records exist of that earlier time.
(b) no one could write before 1200 B.C.
(c) they were a closed society.
(d) only recently have scholars examined the literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy commonly called by Christians?

2. In what way was Yahweh different from the gods of the people around the Hebrews?

3. What was clever about moving the capital from Judah to Jerusalem?

4. What do scholars call two different versions of the same story?

5. What have scholars discovered about many stories in the Bible?

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