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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before moving on to the Book of Exodus, what does Miles do?
(a) He reviews and critiques the Book of Genesis.
(b) He rebukes the Flood story.
(c) He pauses to take stock of what in literary terms makes the unified God of Genesis godlike and different.
(d) He writes his own creation story.

2. Although God is supremely confident, what does he not seem to do?
(a) Ask humankind to praise him.
(b) Ask humankind for repentance.
(c) Plan ahead.
(d) Change his opinion on how to deal with humankind.

3. What is the Tanakh's one God's two strikingly distinct personalities?
(a) Abram and Isaac.
(b) Elohim and Yahweh.
(c) Jacob and Joseph.
(d) Elijah and Matthew.

4. To what have believers grown accustomed?
(a) God's wrath towards those that disobey him.
(b) God's Son, the Messiah.
(c) God's undying love and devotion to humankind.
(d) God 's inner anxiety in the way they are drawn to complex human beings more so than the boring "centered" ones.

5. Who is the protagonist in the Tanakh?
(a) God.
(b) Noah.
(c) Abraham.
(d) Job.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what might critics scoff?

2. How does God create a male?

3. What does God become when Pharaoh legislates that all Israelite boys be killed at birth?

4. What do both Jews and Christians concede without blasphemy?

5. Why is the God of Genesis frustrating?

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