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

2. What is the great irony of P's writing that favored the Aaronid priesthood?
(a) it was re-written to fit J, E, and D.
(b) it was approved even by Authors J, E, and D.
(c) it was left out of the final Torah all together.
(d) someone later pieced it all together with J, E, and D.

3. Who conquered the Babylonians in 538 B.C.?
(a) the Romans.
(b) the Persians.
(c) the Greeks.
(d) the Egyptians.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Baruch mentioned in the book of Jeremiah?

2. According to the laws of Deuteronomy, where was the central place for sacrifices?

3. According to Friedman's theory, when does that place Author P in time?

4. What does Friedman show about the Tabernacle and the Temple?

5. When did the early scholars consider that Author D wrote?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe clues to who wrote Deuteronomy.

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

4. Describe the great irony of the P version of the Torah.

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

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

7. How did the various versions of the Torah evolve into the one we have today?

8. Why is the period 587-400 B.C. difficult to understand?

9. Why was a fix necessary for the text of Deuteronomy?

10. Why does Friedman finally identify Jeremiah as the author of Deuteronomy?

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