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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the plot of the Tanakh?
(a) The birth of our world.
(b) God's love for humanity and humanities inabiliy to follow God's laws.
(c) To discover where we come from.
(d) God's desiring to have a self-image, struggling with that self-image when it becomes a maker of self-images, and reaching crisis when he tries and fails to conceal his originating motive from a single exemplar of himself.

2. Why do the Christians move the prophets from the middle to the end?
(a) God asks to have the order changed.
(b) It is the true order.
(c) To make it less confusing for the reader.
(d) For dramatic effect.

3. Who and what does this book reference?
(a) Cervantes, Joan of Arc, the Arc of the Convenant, and art.
(b) Cervantes, Neil Simon, Oscar Wilde, the Qu'ran, and music.
(c) Peter Voulkos, Jon Balestreri, the Sacred Scrolls, and music.
(d) Neil Simon, Oscar Wilde, Louisa May Alcott, Buddhism, and art.

4. Although many Westerners have lost belief in God, what continues to set them apart from other cultures?
(a) They speak English.
(b) The religiocultural legacy.
(c) Humanitarianism.
(d) The Puritan work ethic.

5. What does humanity reflect?
(a) The multiplicity and unity of its creator.
(b) The sins and transgressions of those who have passed away.
(c) The free will the creator bestowed upon humanity.
(d) The beliefs of our ancestors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of Chapter One, the Prelude, "Can God's Life Be Written?"

2. What is different about these two texts?

3. The Hebrew Bible shows no beginning or end to God, but what does the middle life show?

4. To what does the author compare the Biblical writers?

5. What Jewish and Christian texts cover the same material?

(see the answer key)

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