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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. Why did Author E get his designation?
(a) he always refers to God, El, or Elohim.
(b) he refers to God as Edom.
(c) he never uses the singular for God.
(d) his fist name was Elgar.

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

3. What lay in the ark under the wings of the cherubs?
(a) a tree that symbolized Yahweh.
(b) the original stone tablets of the Ten Commandments.
(c) the original copies of the Torah.
(d) a lampstand with seven candles.

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 northern tribes.
(d) the remnants of Israel.

5. What do scholars call two different versions of the same story?
(a) a contradiction.
(b) a doublet.
(c) a puzzle.
(d) a repetition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first law given in Deuteronomy?

2. What scandal occurred in David's household that ended in a murder?

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

4. Why was the pressure to unite under a King?

5. With what did Ezra return to Judah?

(see the answer key)

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