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QUESTION 1

1. The books of the Old Testament were originally written in what language?

Hebrew

Greek

Latin

Aramaic

QUESTION 2

1. What was the one great contribution of the ancient Hebrew people?

alphabetic writing

Hammurabi's Code of Law

belief in one God, all powerful, all knowing.

political conquest of the Middle East

QUESTION 3

1. Why does Cain kill his brother Abel?

Because God was more pleased with the offerings of Abel

Because Adam loves Abel more

Because Abel teases him

Because the serpent told him

QUESTION 4

1. How many sons does Jacob have?

Three

Ten

Twelve

Four

QUESTION 5

1. The book of Genesis begins this way:

"And it came to pass..."

"In the beginning..."

"And the Lord said..."

"There was a man in the land of Uz..."

QUESTION 6

1. How does God feed the Israelites in the desert?

By miraculously providing fish from the Red Sea

By a strange bread-like substance from heaven

By food produced from Moses' staff

By an endless supply of produce from Egypt

QUESTION 7

1. The ancient area controlled by the Hebrews

Assyria

Babylonia

Sumeria

Palestine

QUESTION 8

1. The sacred name of the Hebrew God, often called the Tetragrammaton, as rendered in the Roman alphabet

YHWH

Elohim

Allah

Alpha

QUESTION 9

1. A revolt against the roman Enperoor Hadrian in A.D. 141-134, result in the removal of the Hebrew people from Palestine. As a result they are known as children of the ___?

Garden of Eden

the Great Flood

the Ark of the Covenant

the Diaspora

QUESTION 10

1. The Lord asked Jonah to go to what city to warn against their wickedness?

Nineveh

Jerusalem

Sodom

Uruk

QUESTION 11

1. What is Jacob's alternate name?

Isaac

Ishmael

Judah

Israel

QUESTION 12

1. What object that God gives Moses allows him to perform signs and wonders?

The stone tablets

A wooden staff

A colorful robe

A golden censer

QUESTION 13

1. Biblical story based on an oral folktale of the patient sufferer that shows a faithful servant of God being tested

Job

Joseph

Cain and Abel

Exodus

QUESTION 14

1. Utnapishtim's story from Gilgamesh provides the basis for the story of

Cain and Abel

Noah

Joseph

Job

QUESTION 15

1. The first five books of the Bible, the Pentateuch, is also called

Genesis

Exodus

Deuteronomy

Torah

QUESTION 16

1. The twin brother of biblical Esau

Abraham

Isaac

Jacob

Abel

QUESTION 17

1. The Old testament books of the Bible date from what periods?

2500-1500 B.C.

1000-300 B.C.

500B.C.-100 A.D.

1000-1500 A.D.

QUESTION 18

1. How does God first appear to Moses?

As a group of three men

As an angel

As a flaming sword

As a burning bush

QUESTION 19

1. The ancient Hebrew state that was reestablished in the twentieth century

Palestine

Israel

Egypt

Babylon

QUESTION 20

1. Which of the following are not signs of God's covenant, or promise, with Abraham?

The rite of circumcision

God provides Sarah with a son, Isaac

God renames Abraham and his wife Sarah

God destroys the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah

QUESTION 21

1. From which catastrophe does Joseph save Egypt?

Famine

A Plague

Military invasion

A flood

QUESTION 22

1. The Old Testment is made up of fragmentarry manuscripts labelled by the letters J, E, P, and

G (Genesis)

M (Moses)

N (Numbers)

D (Deuteronomy)

QUESTION 23

1. Among the formalistic devices that lend rhythm to the poetry of the Old Testament are

Consistent end rhyme

ballad stanza

heroic couplets

parallelism and repetition

QUESTION 24

1. How does Jacob steal his brother Esau's inheritance rights?

By sleeping with his mother

By exposing Esau's plan to murder his father

By tricking his father with the help of his mother

By killing his brother

QUESTION 25

1. Who were the two great kings of the Hebrew people who ruled during a brief period of prosperity (1005-925 B.C)?

Abraham and Isaac

David and Solomon

Alexander and Ptolemy

Hamurabi and Akhenaten