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1. In Genesis the Patriarchs are

a. Abraham and Isaac alone. _____

b. Isaac and Jacob alone. _____

c. Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. _____

d. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. _____

2. Abram's/Abraham's wife was

a. Sarai/Sarah. _____

b. Rebekah. _____

c. Leah. _____

d. Rachel. _____

3. God promised Abraham that his descendants would be

a. few but influential. _____

b. as numerous as the birds in the sky. _____

c. as numerous as the fish in the sea. _____

d. as numerous as the stars in the sky. _____

4. Pharaoh takes Sarai/Sarah as his wife

a. thinking that she is Abraham's sister. _____

b. because he was attracted to her beauty. _____

c. and thus Abraham was not killed. _____

d. all of the above. _____

5. When Lot discovers that the men from Sodom want to rape his two male guests

a. he reluctantly hands them over out of fear. _____

b. he offers them his two virgin daughters instead. _____

c. prays to God for help. _____

d. steps outside and curses them. _____

6. Abraham and Sarah traveled to Egypt

a. to see the pyramids. _____

b. to meet Pharaoh. _____

c. to escape famine. _____

d. all of the above. _____

7. When Lot's wife looks back at the destruction of Sodom

a. she is struck down and killed by an angel. _____

b. she is turned into a pillar of salt. _____

c. she rejoices that the evil Sodomites have been killed. _____

d. she says a prayer of thanks to God. _____

8. Hagar, the maidservant of Sarai/Sarah,

a. had intercourse with Abraham. _____

b. gave Abraham his first son. _____

c. was mistreated by Sarai/Sarah. _____

d. all of the above. _____

9. God demanded that Abraham sacrifice Isaac because

a. God temporarily considered selecting Ishmael as the inheritor of the covenant, after all. _____

b. because God loved Hagar and her son Ishmael more than Sarah/Sarai and her son Isaac. _____

c. he wanted to test Abraham's fear and obedience to God. _____

d. Abraham was being punished for having done wrong. _____

10. When Sarah first heard that she would become pregnant at the age of 90

a. she believed in God's power. _____

b. she laughed out loud in disbelief. _____

c. she said a prayer of thanks to God. _____

d. she was angry. _____

11. After Pharaoh takes Sarai/Sarah as his wife, God strikes Pharaoh and his household with plagues

a. to rescue Sarah. _____

b. in answer to Abraham's prayer. _____

c. because Pharaoh's other wives were jealous. _____

d. all of the above. _____

12. Jacob and Israel

a. were brothers. _____

b. were cousins. _____

c. were two names for the same man. _____

d. none of the above. _____

13. Esau traded his rights as a firstborn son to his brother Jacob in exchange

a. for Jacob's blessing. _____

b. for Jacob's herds of cattle. _____

c. for a bowl of stew. _____

d. for a promise that Jacob would always protect him. _____

14. Jacob's dream about a staircase or ladder to heaven

a. was depicted by Christians in paintings as including both angels and demons. _____

b. was understood by Christians as symbolizing the spiritual life as a journey to God in heaven. _____

c. was understood by Christians to mean that a person could sin greatly even after making much spiritual progress. _____

d. has been interpreted by Christians as all of the above. _____

15. The fact that the recipients of God's covenants, e.g. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, were morally flawed

a. contrasts with God's faithfulness to God's covenant promises. _____

b. shows that the Genesis writers were realistic about human nature. _____

c. means that the reader of these texts (like us today) can identify with these flawed figures and look to God with hope, even when they have done wrong in God's sight. _____

d. all of the above. _____

16. After wrestling all night with an angel/mysterious man

a. Jacob's name was changed to Israel. _____

b. Jacob was struck on the hip. _____

c. Jacob prepared to meet Esau. _____

d. all of the above are true. _____

17. Jacob's struggle with an angel/mysterious man

a. might be interpreted symbolically as his struggle with God in prayer. _____

b. was probably connected to his fear that he might soon be killed by Esau. _____

c. might be interpreted to express his vulnerability and his need for God's help. _____

d. includes all of the above. _____

18. Joseph revealed to his brothers in Egypt that the ultimate reason for his abduction

a. was God's desire to save them all from the coming famine. _____

b. was the brothers' jealousy. _____

c. was Joseph's original pride and arrogance. _____

d. was a combination of b and c.

19. The young Joseph was hated by his brothers because

a. they were jealous that Joseph was the favorite of his father Jacob. _____

b. because of Joseph's dreams about his superiority over his brothers. _____

c. because Joseph reported bad things about them to their father. _____

d. of all of the above. _____

20. Joseph's dreams about his brothers bowing before him

a. later turned out to really happen. _____

b. caused him to be sold as a slave and taken to Egypt. _____

c. were caused by God. _____

d. include all of the above. _____

21. After Joseph came to power in Egypt, his ten brothers travelled there

a. to make peace with Joseph. _____

b. to form an alliance with the Egyptians. _____

c. to find wives. _____

d. to buy grain. _____

22. Jacob had twelve sons and a daughter with

a. four women. _____

b. three women. _____

c. two women . _____

d. one woman. _____

23. Sheol was

a. one of Jacob's twelve sons. _____

b. the man or angel who wrestled with Jacob. _____

c. the shadowy underworld where all people go after they die. _____

d. none of the above. _____

24. Divine providence

a. involves God's foreknowledge of what will happen. _____

b. reveals God's care for creation. _____

c. presupposes that God is good. _____

d. involves all of the above. _____

25. Believing in divine providence can be difficult, because

a. of all the suffering in the world. _____

b. it is hard to reconcile it with human free will. _____

c. the evidence for God is ambiguous. _____

d. involves all of the above. _____