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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the author believe God's story deserves?
(a) To commemorate the Israelites.
(b) To be considered a work of fiction.
(c) More than the selective preaching it receives.
(d) To be thrown in the trash.
2. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"
(a) Torah, "teaching," nebim, "prophets," and ketubim, "writings."
(b) Tambor, "muse," nell, "god," and kell, "sanctity."
(c) Taliya, "describe," newsome, "interpret," and kettlyn, "evaluate."
(d) Tyra, "speaker," nebular, "cosmic," and ketchem, "source."
3. What do the Biblical writers do?
(a) They ramble on about stories from the past.
(b) They testify about God.
(c) They criticize the Israelites.
(d) They criticize God.
4. How is the Hebrew God different from those of Greek mythology?
(a) He creates a human that is also part god.
(b) He is peaceful at all times.
(c) He takes no action without thinking of man, has no "adventures," and has no divine companions.
(d) He has a wife.
5. What has the Tanakh always been?
(a) A guide to the godly life.
(b) The story of God's struggle to be polytheistic.
(c) The story of God's inner conflict being resolved into monotheism.
(d) The change of God from monotheism to polytheism.
Short Answer Questions
1. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?
2. How does God create a male?
3. What does the Bible show without cover-up?
4. At what might critics scoff?
5. What is the purpose of Chapter One, the Prelude, "Can God's Life Be Written?"
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