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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 God not do as he is creating the world and animals?
(a) He does not make all the animals.
(b) He does not talk about himself or his motivation for the sudden action.
(c) He does not create light.
(d) He does not feel confident in his creations.

2. By the time Exodus begins, what has happened to Abraham's descendants?
(a) They are at war with one another.
(b) They are almost extinct.
(c) They have moved to Europe.
(d) They have become innumerable, to the point they are a threat to Egypt.

3. What is different about these two texts?
(a) They have different subject matter.
(b) They are from two different cultures.
(c) They are in different orders.
(d) They have varying beliefs.

4. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"
(a) Torah, "teaching," nebim, "prophets," and ketubim, "writings."
(b) Tambor, "muse," nell, "god," and kell, "sanctity."
(c) Tyra, "speaker," nebular, "cosmic," and ketchem, "source."
(d) Taliya, "describe," newsome, "interpret," and kettlyn, "evaluate."

5. What do the Biblical writers do?
(a) They criticize the Israelites.
(b) They criticize God.
(c) They ramble on about stories from the past.
(d) They testify about God.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God come to understand that he wants to limit and channel the gift of procreation?

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

3. The creation story resembles what creation myths?

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

5. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?

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