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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 be thrown in the trash.
(b) To commemorate the Israelites.
(c) To be considered a work of fiction.
(d) More than the selective preaching it receives.

2. What has the Tanakh always been?
(a) A guide to the godly life.
(b) The story of God's inner conflict being resolved into monotheism.
(c) The change of God from monotheism to polytheism.
(d) The story of God's struggle to be polytheistic.

3. What does God become when Pharaoh legislates that all Israelite boys be killed at birth?
(a) For the first time he becomes a father.
(b) For the second time he becomes a warrior.
(c) For the second time he becomes a father.
(d) For the first time he becomes a warrior.

4. On what is Western civilization built?
(a) That Americans are the best.
(b) That one race is superior above all others.
(c) That all men are created equal.
(d) The belief that God created humankind in His own image.

5. What is the unifying principle of the Tanakh?
(a) God's war with himself.
(b) God's fight with the devil.
(c) God' love for himself.
(d) God's love of humankind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different about these two texts?

2. What is the order of the Jewish text?

3. Although many Westerners have lost belief in God, what continues to set them apart from other cultures?

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

5. How do critics and scholars differ?

(see the answer key)

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