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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 The World That the Bible Produced.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the time of Judah before Babylon, who initiates religious reforms?
(a) King Hezekiah.
(b) King David.
(c) King Saul.
(d) King Rehoboam.

2. How do J, E, and D depict God in the creation stories?
(a) as a personal deity who actually appears as a man.
(b) as a disinterested observer.
(c) as a stern law giver.
(d) as a vengeful spirit.

3. What does Friedman speculate held the exiled Jews together?
(a) the blood relationship among them.
(b) the nature of the Jewish religion.
(c) the resistance they put up.
(d) the smuggled copies of the Torah.

4. What did Solomon build that was larger than the Temple?
(a) a barracks for his army.
(b) a gold depository.
(c) his palace.
(d) a university.

5. Beside the references to Yahweh or El, are there other differences between J and E?
(a) Yes, there are distinct stylistic differences.
(b) Yes, there are narrative differences.
(c) No, there are no seemingly contradictory statements.
(d) No, there are no stylistic differences.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first law given in Deuteronomy?

2. What does the revised text make clear about the exile?

3. How has science corroborated the fall of Lachish?

4. Why did writer P not include sacrificial animals in his account of Noah's ark?

5. What did the two writers use that alerted scholars to the idea that there were more than one?

(see the answer key)

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