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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do critics and scholars differ?
(a) How to approach literary characters.
(b) What colleges they attend.
(c) Their beliefs about what is literature.
(d) How they study poetry.

2. What does God do when displeased by some human action or inaction?
(a) He plots
(b) He ignores them.
(c) He worries.
(d) He reacts.

3. What do these references do?
(a) They enrich the experience for those who grasp comparison, but do not demand look-up for those who do not.
(b) They do not add to the biography of God.
(c) They encourage readers to learn more about what is referenced.
(d) They make the book more confusing for those who do not know the sources.

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

5. What is the order of the Christian text?
(a) Speech to action to silence.
(b) Action to speech to silence.
(c) Action to silence to speech.
(d) Silence to speech to action.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God create a male?

2. Why is the God of Genesis frustrating?

3. What does Nathan's oracle suggest as the reason God adopts Solomon rather than David?

4. What must God do to maintain contact with the remnant that survives destruction?

5. What does David do before the ark?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the "Deuteronomistic History?"

2. What did Neil Simon take for granted when he writes the play "God's Favorite?"

3. How is God compared to modern actors and Don Quixote?

4. How does God show mercy towards the Israelites after the destruction in Deuteronomy?

5. How do the Israelites respond to Moses leading them in the desert? How does God respond to them?

6. How can God's inconsistent behavior be understood?

7. What part of Abram/Abraham does God personally control?

8. How does Miles disagree with systematic theologians and the character and actions of God?

9. How does the frightful Yahweh act towards the man and the woman after they are punished and before they are expelled from the garden?

10. Under Joshua, what does Israel do?

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