1. What is the purpose of Chapter One, the Prelude, "Can God's Life Be Written?"
(a) It examines God's law.
(b) It establishes what Jack Miles intends to accomplish in this book.
(c) It establishes Jack Miles' religious beliefs.
(d) It examines God's history throughout time.

2. Why do the Jew leave the text where it is?
(a) For dramatic effect.
(b) God asks to have the order kept in its original form.
(c) It is the true order and should not be changed.
(d) They adopt the codex as a way of preserving the contents of their ancient scrolls.

3. What is the purpose of the second interlude, "Does God Fail?"
(a) It gives proof of God's successes.
(b) It performs a status check on how god has been characterized in the first eleven primarily historical books of the Tanakh, before turning to the prophets and other literary forms.
(c) It interviews various religious authorities on their opinions on whether God has failed them.
(d) It criticises God for all his failures.

4. How does God indicate his sense of mercy might outweigh his sense of justice?
(a) He saves the Israelites.
(b) He gives the Israelites multiple chances.
(c) He saves other nations, even though they are not Israelites.
(d) By allowing the generation after the destruction to have an opportunity to return to him and be restored.

5. The Hebrew Bible shows no beginning or end to God, but what does the middle life show?
(a) A progression from action to reaction.
(b) A progression from silence to violence.
(c) A progression from happiness to sadness.
(d) A progression from vigor to quiescence.