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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it significant for some to trace their priestly ancestry back to Aaron?
(a) he was the first Jewish High Priest.
(b) he was more important than Moses.
(c) he was a goldsmith as well as a priest.
(d) he was given the Ten Commandments.

2. Who is most likely the redactor for the entire Pentateuch?
(a) Samuel.
(b) Ezra.
(c) Jeremiah.
(d) Hezekiah.

3. From where did some of the inclusions into the Pentateuch come?
(a) the Davidic traditions.
(b) the apocrypha.
(c) the Book of the Dead.
(d) the Book of Generations.

4. Why did it take hundreds of years for anyone to suspect there was more than one writer involved in the written Torah?
(a) because there was no archelogical evidence.
(b) because no one thought to questions the contradictions.
(c) because the combination was done so artfully.
(d) because no one studied it carefully.

5. What is inferred about the Davidic Covenant in the revised Deuteronomy?
(a) there will always be a Davidic king in exile.
(b) a Davidic king will take over a larger kingdom.
(c) someone from David's line is always a potential king.
(d) a Davidic king does not need a throne.

6. According to Friedman's theory, when does that place Author P in time?
(a) during the time of the conquest of Canaan.
(b) during the time of the exile.
(c) during the time of King David.
(d) during the time of the first Temple.

7. What does Friedman suggest is the only good news about the exile?
(a) that it educated the brightest young people.
(b) that it only lasted fifty years.
(c) that they missed a famine in Israel.
(d) that the Jews became wealthy in Babylon and Egypt.

8. What does Friedman suggest gives a clue as to the identity of the writer D?
(a) the contents of the law code presented in Deuteronomy.
(b) the length of the book of Deuteronomy.
(c) the language used in writing Deuteronomy.
(d) the changes in the wording of the law.

9. What is Author P's interpretation of God?
(a) a gracious and merciful God.
(b) a diety modelled after the pagan gods.
(c) a mysterious and capricious God.
(d) a dispassionate and just deity.

10. Why did writer P not include sacrificial animals in his account of Noah's ark?
(a) he was satisfied with J and E in their accounts.
(b) he is not interested in what happened after the flood.
(c) it is not a sacrifice if there are other animals remaining.
(d) Aaron was not yet the high priest.

11. Who conquered the Babylonians in 538 B.C.?
(a) the Greeks.
(b) the Romans.
(c) the Egyptians.
(d) the Persians.

12. Who writes his book in much the same way that Deuteronomy had been written?
(a) Josiah.
(b) David.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Jeremiah.

13. What does Friedman say about Jeremiah's familiarity with Author P before the exile?
(a) that Jeremiah was hostile toward the priestly author.
(b) that Jeremiah admired what he had done.
(c) that Jeremiah never heard of him.
(d) that Jeremiah got his material from Author P.

14. What did Ezra claim about his copy of the Torah?
(a) it was a new revelation from God.
(b) it was the work of his own hand.
(c) it was incomplete.
(d) it was completely written by Moses.

15. What was different about the religion of the Jews and those of other nations?
(a) its dogmatism.
(b) its longevity.
(c) its popularity.
(d) its monotheism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Baruch Halpern eliminate the possibility that a king had written Deuteronomy?

2. Who had been a Levite priest of Anathoth and had never done sacrifices?

3. How is Baruch mentioned in the book of Jeremiah?

4. What is the third part assumption of the pious fraud?

5. How does Friedman remind the reader that one can only really understand the exile?

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