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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Primarily, what is Deuteronomy mostly about?
(a) science.
(b) laws.
(c) history.
(d) praise.

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

4. What writer became known as Author D?
(a) the writer who penned the book of Daniel.
(b) the chronicler of David.
(c) the author of Deuteronomy.
(d) the third autor of the Pentateuch.

5. What symbol in Exodus parallels a similar object in the northern kingdom?
(a) broken stones.
(b) golden calves.
(c) winged angels.
(d) wooden arks.

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

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

8. What information comes from knowing who wrote the Bible and when it was written?
(a) only what the text means to us today.
(b) whether the text is authentic or not.
(c) what the text meant in the Biblical world itself.
(d) how the languages have changed over the years.

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

10. After the fall of Israel in 722 B.C., what remains of the Jewish nation?
(a) a weakened Judah.
(b) a group by the waters of Babylon.
(c) a ragtag group of remnants.
(d) a community in exile.

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

12. 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.

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

14. What did Spinoza point out about Moses being called "the humblest man on Earth"?
(a) it is a strange thing to say about Moses.
(b) it shows that Moses wrote the first five books.
(c) it is not something he would call himself.
(d) it is a lie.

15. What unusual speculation does Friedman make regarding the Egyptian bondage?
(a) that the tribe of Levi was left out of the slavery.
(b) that they were not enslaved so much as over taxed.
(c) that only the tribe of Levi may have been enslaved.
(d) that Moses did not really lead them out of Egypt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are tribal references important in discovering the different authors?

2. What is the difference in the two writers approach to the ark of the covenant?

3. What are the dates Friedman puts on the two writers?

4. Why does Author E's writing about God's commandment cast doubt on the golden cherubs of Judah?

5. Who was the last judge before Saul became King of Israel?

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