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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does David do before the ark?
(a) He dances wildly and scantily clad.
(b) He argues with God.
(c) He cries.
(d) He mourns his losses.

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

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

4. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?
(a) What deities were part of this fusion?
(b) How this affected the Jews?
(c) How did all this feel to God?
(d) Of what other cultures was the God of Israel a god?

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author believe God's story deserves?

2. What story is told twice and is structurally the same, yet different in the details and mood?

3. How and why does God create a female?

4. What does God do as he creates the world and populates it with animals in five days?

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

(see the answer key)

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