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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In their arguments, how do Graf and others who argue for Author P during the second Temple see the Tabernacle?
(a) as a fabrication to preserve the blueprints of the Temple.
(b) as a tradition that Moses perpetrated.
(c) as a device to link Moses with the second Temple.
(d) as an unimportant artifact that was left in the desert.

2. Why does Friedman say that insertions were necessary in Deuteronomy?
(a) to pave the way for a new covenant.
(b) to broaden the story about the role of priests.
(c) to deny the history of the Jews.
(d) to prepare the readers for the new ending.

3. Who allows the Jews to return to their home country?
(a) Baltshazzar the Benevolent.
(b) Ramses the Second.
(c) Alexander the Great.
(d) Cyrus the Great.

4. With what did Ezra return to Judah?
(a) an army of 10,000 men.
(b) a copy of the Torah that is in modern usage.
(c) a blueprint of the Temple.
(d) a new revelation from God.

5. What does Friedman classify as a brilliant mistake?
(a) the identification of Josiah as the J author.
(b) the identification of Moses as Author P.
(c) the identification of the P author of the Bible.
(d) the identification of four authors of the Torah.

6. What is the third part assumption of the pious fraud?
(a) that religion was exclusive to Judah.
(b) that religion was still being conceived.
(c) that religion was centralized.
(d) that religion was uniform in two kingdoms.

7. What does Friedman show about the Tabernacle and the Temple?
(a) they are made of the same materials.
(b) there are incredible similarities between them.
(c) they are in perfect scale one to the other.
(d) there is no direct scaling of one to the other.

8. What was different about the religion of the Jews and those of other nations?
(a) its monotheism.
(b) its dogmatism.
(c) its longevity.
(d) its popularity.

9. What happened to the accounts of writers J, E, and P?
(a) they were edited to remove any trace of bias.
(b) they were preserved in separate books.
(c) they were discounted in favor of Moses' writing.
(d) they became stitched together into one Pentateuch.

10. When did Professor Eduard Reuss place Author P?
(a) during the time of the Tabernacle.
(b) during the time of the first Temple.
(c) during the time of King Josiah.
(d) during the time of the second Temple.

11. What does Friedman speculate held the exiled Jews together?
(a) the smuggled copies of the Torah.
(b) the resistance they put up.
(c) the blood relationship among them.
(d) the nature of the Jewish religion.

12. From where did some of the inclusions into the Pentateuch come?
(a) the Davidic traditions.
(b) the apocrypha.
(c) the Book of Generations.
(d) the Book of the Dead.

13. How were books written at the time of the Pentateuch authors?
(a) in bits and pieces that were stitched together.
(b) literature and history all jumbled together.
(c) with little reference to history.
(d) mostly as literary stories.

14. Who does Friedman identify as the writer of Deuteronomy?
(a) Moses.
(b) Hezekiah.
(c) Aaron.
(d) Jeremiah.

15. How does Jeremiah see the Aaronid priests like Author P?
(a) as the true inheritors of the priesthood.
(b) as liberals bent on changing the law.
(c) as a priestly class that casts Moses in a bad light.
(d) as usurpers of God's command for Levite priests.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are there references to the guilt and pain of the exile?

2. From where does Friedman speculate the laws came from in the writings of Author P?

3. How does every book in the Pentateuch begin?

4. From where do the priests of the northern kingdom trace their ancestry?

5. Who goes into exile with Jeremiah?

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