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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With all the people who have read and studied the Bible, what is one thing few of them know?
(a) how many pages are in it.
(b) who wrote it.
(c) where it was found.
(d) what languages was it written in.

2. What are the books known as the Early Prophets?
(a) Ecclesiastes, Amos, and Obadiah.
(b) 1 and 2 Chronicles and Judges.
(c) Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel.
(d) Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Kings and 2 Kings.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Author E get his designation?

3. How is King Josiah killed?

4. What lay in the ark under the wings of the cherubs?

5. What does the Author J's story of Noah do that the Author E's story does not?

Short Essay Questions

1. After placing the date of the writing of Deuteronomy as around 622 B.C., what becomes Friedman's next task?

2. How long after the initial evidence of multiple writers of the Bible were discovered did it become clear that two more writers were also involved?

3. What is compelling evidence from modern scholarship that there were multiple writers of the Bible?

4. What are some of the measures David undertook to unite the twelve tribes after he became King?

5. Discuss the period of time when the written compilation of the Bible as we have it today began.

6. What is the tie in between the Golden Calf idol made at the foot of mount Sinai and the images of the cherubim in both the northern and southern regions?

7. What do scholars use to determine the different writers?

8. What evidence is there that Author J might have been female?

9. What method does Friedman use to determine the identity of Author E?

10. What is some other evidence for the book of Deuteronomy having been of fairly recent writing?

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