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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 they study poetry.
(b) Their beliefs about what is literature.
(c) What colleges they attend.
(d) How to approach literary characters.

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

3. With what is God satisfied regarding various nations?
(a) Destroying them.
(b) Assimilating them into the Israelite culture.
(c) Ignoring them.
(d) With manipulating nations like chess pieces.

4. How is the Bible unique?
(a) It is the most important book that is in existence.
(b) It is read by people from many cultures.
(c) It is a translated classic, read by only a tiny minority in the original language.
(d) It has been translated into hundreds of languages.

5. Although God is supremely confident, what does he not seem to do?
(a) Ask humankind to praise him.
(b) Plan ahead.
(c) Ask humankind for repentance.
(d) Change his opinion on how to deal with humankind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does God give to himself as an out from the broken covenant?

2. Why is the God of Genesis frustrating?

3. What is God's story the key to understanding?

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?

5. How does God seem to be taking up ethical matters?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the "Deuteronomistic History?"

2. How is the Bible different from both saga and classical epic?

3. On what and whose precept is GOD: A BIOGRAPHY written?

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

5. Under Joshua, what does Israel do?

6. What are three ways in which God is different from the gods of Greek mythology?

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

8. Describe the god Baal.

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

10. What does God invite readers to do, at which critics might scoff? Why?

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