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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. What goes against the First Commandment?
(a) bearing false witness.
(b) committing genocide.
(c) worshipping foreign gods.
(d) committing adultery.

2. What is Author P's interpretation of God?
(a) a mysterious and capricious God.
(b) a diety modelled after the pagan gods.
(c) a gracious and merciful God.
(d) a dispassionate and just deity.

3. What does Friedman suggest is the only good news about the exile?
(a) that it educated the brightest young people.
(b) that it only lasted fifty years.
(c) that they missed a famine in Israel.
(d) that the Jews became wealthy in Babylon and Egypt.

4. To whom does Deuteronomy give jurisdiction in legal matters?
(a) Levites.
(b) kings.
(c) Jacobites.
(d) descendants of Moses.

5. Who had been a Levite priest of Anathoth and had never done sacrifices?
(a) Ezra.
(b) Jeremiah.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Isaiah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What supernatural tales are left out by Author P?

2. What does Friedman classify as a brilliant mistake?

3. How does this change in the writing affect the Davidic Covenant?

4. In their arguments, how do Graf and others who argue for Author P during the second Temple see the Tabernacle?

5. What happened to the accounts of writers J, E, and P?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the brilliant mistake made in regard to discovering the identity of writer P?

2. How did Cyrus the Great figure into the history of the Jewish exile?

3. How does the importance of sacrificing becomes apparent?

4. How does writer P interject his ideas about miracles and the authority of the Aaronid priests?

5. At what point does the original draft of Deuteronomy stop making sense?

6. How does Friedman identify as writer R, the redactor who stitched together all the various versions into one Torah?

7. During what historical time frame does Friedman place the writer P?

8. Why is identifying the time of writer P of significance?

9. How was responsibility for the eventual exile of the people defined in the later text?

10. Where does Friedman place the Tabernacle at the time of the First Temple?

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