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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is significant in the Ten Commandments story Author E writes?
(a) Moses defers to Aaron's advice.
(b) Moses is never mentioned.
(c) Aaron plays a significant role.
(d) Aaron is the one who gets the stone tablets.

3. What observation did Thomas Hobbes make about certain language in the Bible.
(a) the language is unquestionably uniform.
(b) phrases like "to this day" could only come from God.
(c) the language indicates little change in usage.
(d) phrases like "to this day" are used to talk about the past.

4. 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.

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

6. Where does Author J place Abraham in the story of genesis?
(a) in Jerusalem before it was called Jerusalem.
(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 Shechem, the capital of Israel.

7. Where and when does Friedman place the writing of Deuteronomy?
(a) in Egypt around 722 B.C.
(b) in Shechem around 587 B.C.
(c) in Jerusalem around 622 B.C.
(d) in Babylon around 550 B.C.

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

9. Who was the fifth person involved in the four author idea?
(a) the one who collected the information.
(b) the one who stitched the works together.
(c) the one who found the different stories.
(d) the one who kept the original manuscripts.

10. What does the weakened King of Judah order concerning religion?
(a) he requires religious ceremonies be done in secret.
(b) he requires the priests to pray.
(c) he requires the foreign gods to be removed.
(d) he requires the priests to honor these foreign gods.

11. What is the difference in the two writers approach to the ark of the covenant?
(a) J thinks it is less important than E does.
(b) J writes extensively about it but E never mentions it.
(c) E writes that it was destroyed in a fire.
(d) E praises it because it is in Shechem.

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

13. What is Friedman's conclusion regarding Author E?
(a) that he is an Israelite Levite.
(b) that he is related to Jeroboam.
(c) that E is a woman.
(d) that E copied Author J's writings.

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

15. Why are tribal references important in discovering the different authors?
(a) they show which tribes each of the authors comes from.
(b) they certify the two authors' reliability.
(c) they read like the political divisions after King Solomon.
(d) they indicate great knowledge of Hebrew history.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Primarily, what is Deuteronomy mostly about?

3. What religious practice was done by Hezekiah's son and grandson?

4. What is seen in the Author E story of Jacob's blessing of his sons and grandsons?

5. Going beyond the two writer theory, what have some scholars suggested?

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