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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 The World That Produced the Bible: 587-400 B.C..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who allows the Jews to return to their home country?
(a) Ramses the Second.
(b) Baltshazzar the Benevolent.
(c) Cyrus the Great.
(d) Alexander the Great.

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

3. What are the books known as the Early Prophets?
(a) Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Kings and 2 Kings.
(b) Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel.
(c) Ecclesiastes, Amos, and Obadiah.
(d) 1 and 2 Chronicles and Judges.

4. Who had been a Levite priest of Anathoth and had never done sacrifices?
(a) Ezra.
(b) Isaiah.
(c) Jeremiah.
(d) Samuel.

5. How does it appear that doublets have been treated to form the Bible?
(a) they have simply been ignored.
(b) they have been left out of the text.
(c) they have been cut and reduced to make one story.
(d) the best one has been selected to include.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Friedman say is not his purpose in writing the book?

3. Where do the authors D and E write that Moses received the Ten Commandments?

4. Who became prophets?

5. When was David anointed King?

(see the answer key)

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