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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the political structure for the Israelites?
(a) they were anarchists.
(b) they had a tribunal.
(c) they lived under a king.
(d) they consisted of twelve tribes.

3. What is the status of Aaron in the narrative of Author E?
(a) it is sinful status.
(b) it is insignificant status.
(c) it is objectionable status.
(d) it is hero status.

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

5. What King returned to the reforms of King Hezekiah?
(a) King Ahab, husband of Jezebel.
(b) King Exra, the phrophet king.
(c) King Josiah, Hezekiah's great grandson
(d) King Belshazzar, a Babylonian appointee.

6. How does J get around the problem of images in the north and south?
(a) J says that Yahweh made the southern images.
(b) J writes that there are no images.
(c) J condemns molten images only.
(d) J questions the use of the northern images.

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

8. Who proposed three historical stages for the development of Israel?
(a) Savanerola.
(b) Julius Wellhausen.
(c) Spinoza.
(d) Friedman.

9. What is a salt lake and named so because the salt content is too high to support life other than microbes?
(a) the Sea of Galilee.
(b) the Red Sea.
(c) the Mediterranean Sea.
(d) the Dead Sea.

10. What scandal occurred in David's household that ended in a murder?
(a) David's oldest son, Amnon, raped Tamar, his half-sister.
(b) David's son, Absolum, took bribes from the tribes.
(c) David's brothers attempted to assassinate him.
(d) David's wife had an affair with a priest.

11. How did David solidify relationships with different important regions?
(a) by selecting generals from each area.
(b) by reducing their taxes.
(c) by marrying women from those areas.
(d) by selecting their daughters for his sons.

12. What is the traditional belief about the authorship of the first five books of the Bible?
(a) that Adam wrote them.
(b) that Moses wrote them.
(c) that Isaiah wrote them.
(d) that Noah wrote them.

13. What was clever about moving the capital from Judah to Jerusalem?
(a) Jerusalem did not belong to any tribe.
(b) Jerusalem was a thriving trade city.
(c) Jerusalem was centrally located.
(d) Jerusalem represented a new beginning.

14. To what do the books of the Early Prophets bear a remarkable similarity?
(a) Leviticus.
(b) Exodus.
(c) Deuteronomy.
(d) Genesis.

15. What does the Author J's story of Noah do that the Author E's story does not?
(a) it allows God to have regrets.
(b) it gives God a greater purpose for the flood.
(c) it makes God more human.
(d) it shows God as an abstract idea.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has science corroborated the fall of Lachish?

2. With all the people who have read and studied the Bible, what is one thing few of them know?

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

4. What effect did the first suggestions that more than one writer wrote the Pentateuch have on Christian clergy?

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

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