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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Moses spend on Mt. Sinai?
(a) One day and night.
(b) Forty days and nights.
(c) Forty-five days and nights.
(d) Four days and nights.

2. To what does the author compare the Biblical writers?
(a) Judges.
(b) Illustrators.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) Courtroom witnesses.

3. What is the purpose of the second interlude, "Does God Fail?"
(a) 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.
(b) It gives proof of God's successes.
(c) It criticises God for all his failures.
(d) It interviews various religious authorities on their opinions on whether God has failed them.

4. How does God seem to be taking up ethical matters?
(a) He has a strategic plan for dealing with ethical manners.
(b) He does not care about ethics.
(c) On a case-by-case basis.
(d) In a zero-tolerance policy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the unifying principle of the Tanakh?

2. Although God is supremely confident, what does he not seem to do?

3. What are the traits that come to the fore?

4. How does God indicate his sense of mercy might outweigh his sense of justice?

5. How is God's interaction with Moses different from that with Abraham?

(see the answer key)

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