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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the virgin daughters of one Israelite town that does not answer the call to massacre the Benjaminites allowed to be raped by the survivors?
(a) They want to show their power.
(b) To get revenge on the Benjaminites.
(c) In order to preserve the tribe's existence among the twelve.
(d) To punish them for disobeying.

2. To what does the author compare the Biblical writers?
(a) Judges.
(b) Courtroom witnesses.
(c) Illustrators.
(d) Lawyers.

3. What does the author believe God's story deserves?
(a) To be considered a work of fiction.
(b) To commemorate the Israelites.
(c) To be thrown in the trash.
(d) More than the selective preaching it receives.

4. Although his story, previously reserved to Jewish and Christian believers, is the bedrock of what civilization?
(a) Eastern civilization.
(b) Mesopotamian civilization.
(c) Asian civilization.
(d) Western civilization.

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

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 a fully-integrated Yahweh/Elohim God appear to Moses?

3. What does the keynote, "The Image and the Original" provide?

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

5. What is unimportant in Genesis 1, but becomes a matter of shame in Genesis 2?

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