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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the idea that there were four authors of the Pentateuch meet with resistance among Christians and Jews?
(a) the idea was too much of a change from traditional thinking.
(b) the idea was suspected of trying to undermine the Bible.
(c) the idea was thought to be the work of the Devil.
(d) the idea was too complicated to understand.

2. By the end of the 19th Century what name does the four author idea take on?
(a) the Fourth Dimension.
(b) the Documentary Hypothesis
(c) the Quadra Hypothesis.
(d) the Four Horsemen.

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

4. Who became prophets?
(a) anyone who called himself a prophet.
(b) only judges.
(c) anyone called by Yahweh.
(d) only priests.

5. What was different after David died and his son became King?
(a) Solomon held elections among the tribes.
(b) Solomon became a greater conqueror.
(c) Solomon moved the capital to Beersheba.
(d) Solomon was peaceful, not going to war like David.

6. What happened to the snake sculpture that Moses had built in the wilderness?
(a) copies were made for all areas of the kingdom.
(b) it was taken by the Assyrians.
(c) it was brought to the Temple.
(d) Hezekiah destroyed it.

7. Where does Author J place Abraham in the story of genesis?
(a) in Shechem, the capital of Israel.
(b) in the city Peni-El, which King Jeroboam had built in Israel.
(c) in Hebron, the capital city of Judah under King David.
(d) in Jerusalem before it was called Jerusalem.

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

9. What were the cherubs inside the Holy of Holies?
(a) statues of baby angels carrying bows and arrows.
(b) statues of golden calves with wings.
(c) abstract statues of angels.
(d) two statues of a four-legged animals with wings and the heads of humans.

10. What did the two writers use that alerted scholars to the idea that there were more than one?
(a) each writes from a different time frame.
(b) each uses a different ancient language.
(c) each uses personal references.
(d) each writes in different language, style, and interests.

11. What does Friedman propose about Author J?
(a) that he came from Jerico.
(b) that he was not a Hebrew.
(c) that he was a Levite.
(d) that he lived in Judah.

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

13. Why did Frank Moore Cross, a biblical scholar at Harvard University, argue against looking for an author of Deuteronomy after 587 B.C.?
(a) one Israelite kingdom no longer existed.
(b) the language of Deuteronomy predates 587 B.C.
(c) there are no scrolls after 587 B.C.
(d) the phrase "to this day" is often employed in the text.

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

15. Why was the pressure to unite under a King?
(a) the proplem of tribal disunity.
(b) the need to be like the Egyptians.
(c) the might of the Philistines.
(d) the rule of law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an important individual agreement between God and man?

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

3. How is King Josiah killed?

4. When was David anointed King?

5. What did Isaac ibn Yashush notice in the eleventh century about the list of kings in Genesis 36?

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