Getting Started with Genesis Questions
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1. What do the Jews call what we label as the Old Testament?
A. BARUK
B. HESED
C. LAMADI
D. TANAK
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2. The “T” in TANAK stands for _____
A. Torah
B. Tabernacle
C. Talmud
D. Tishri
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3. The “N” in TANAK stands for “prophets” ______
A. Nehustan
B. Nebi’im
C. Natan
D. Nezeta’im
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4. Nebi’im means _________
A. Law
B. Writings
C. History
D. Prophets
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4. What does the “K” in TANAK stand for?
A. Kethubim
B. Kelev
C. Kebi’im
D. Katanim
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5. What does the “K” in TANAK stand for?
A. History
B. Prophets
C. Law
D. Writings
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6. What does the title for the Law “Torah” literally mean?
A. Covenant
B. Prophets
C. Instruction
D. Wisdom
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7. The book of Joshua is in what section of the Jewish scriptures?
A. Kethubim
B. Nebi’im
C. Kethubim
D. Berith
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8. The book of Psalms is in what section of the Jewish scriptures?
A. Kethubim
B. Nebi’im
C. Kethubim
D. Berith
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9. What section of the Jewish scriptures does the Torah describe?
A. The Prophets
B. The poetic section
C. The history
D. The Law
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10. The Pentateuch refers to which books in the Old Testament?
A. Genesis-Deuteronomy
B. Joshua-2 Samuel
C. Isaiah-Daniel
D. Psalms-Ecclesiastes
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11. Moses is described in the Torah as doing what two activities according to the Getting Started with Genesis?
A. Praying and teaching
B. Oral revelation and writing the torah
C. Leading Israel in the desert
D. Speaking to God face to face
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12. All of the following accept the Mosaic authorship of the law EXCEPT
A. Rabbinic material
B. Josephus
C. Wellhausen
D. Jesus
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13. What did the Documentary Hypothesis theory propose?
A. The Pentateuch was formed of six different literary genres or forms
B. The Pentateuch was written from four different sources
C. The Pentateuch was written by four different writers
D. The Pentateuch was accepted at six different times in Israel’s history
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14. What does “Pentateuch” literally mean?
A. Eight sources
B. Ten commandments
C. Four perspectives
D. Five books
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15. What theory proposes that the Torah was not written by Moses (1400/1200 BC) but much later around 850-400 BC?
A. JEDP
B. LGBY
C. ISIS
D. AWLS
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16. What is the Hebrew title for the book of Genesis?
A. Elohim
B. Bereshit
C. Toledot
D. Emet
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17. Where does the title “Genesis” come from?
A. The Latin meaning “first”
B. The Aramaic meaning “creation”
C. The Akkadian meaning “primary”
D. The Greek meaning “beginning”
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18. What is the Septuagint?
A. A Greek translation of the Old Testament
B. A Latin translation of the Old Testament
C. An Aramaic translation of the Old Testament
D. A Hebrew commentary on the Old Testament
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19. What is the standard abbreviated form of the Septuagint?
A. MCM
B. DMI
C. LXX
D. XIX
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20. What is the best description of Genesis 1-11?
A. The beginning of everything
B. A universal history of human civilization
C. God’s creation
D. The reason for sin and redemption
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21. All of the following were major characters in Genesis 12-50 EXCEPT
A. Joseph
B. Jacob
C. Isaac
D. Noah
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22. The seven days of creation describe the ______ and ______ of the universe.
A. Forming and filling
B. Beginning and destiny
C. Promise and fulfillment
D. Start and end
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23. Genesis was written in opposition to what feature found in other ancient Near Eastern cultures?
A. Idolatry
B. Injustice
C. Polytheism
D. Magic
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24. What is the famous Latin phrase referring to the image of God in humankind?
A. Imagas Creatium
B. Berith
C. Imagium Morphe
D. Imago Dei
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25. What tree were Adam and Eve allowed to eat in the Garden of Eden?
A. The Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil
B. The Tree of the Covenant
C. The Tree of Life
D. The Tree of the Holies of Holies
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26. What tree were Adam and Eve not allowed to eat in the Garden of Eden?
A. The Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil
B. The Tree of the Covenant
C. The Tree of Life
D. The Tree of the Holies of Holies
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27. After Adam and Eve are expelled from the garden what indicates the spiraling down humankind?
A. The lying of Abraham
B. The murder of Abel
C. The cleansing by the flood
D. The worshipping of other gods
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28. What word breaks the book of Genesis into ten literary sections?
A. Bereshit--beginning
B. Emet—truth
C. Toledot—the account of
D. Kai de – and then
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29. All of the following are ancient Near Eastern documents paralleling with Genesis EXCEPT
A. Gilgamesh Epic
B. Enuma Elish
C. Atra-hasis
D. The Black Obelisk
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30. How do the Mesopotamian documents portray their gods as opposed to the wise, moral God of the Old Testament?
A. Chaotic battles between the gods
B. Creating out of pre-existing material
C. Themselves created by nature
D. A divine council deciding how to make things
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31. In the Abrahamic Covenant he is promised all of the following EXCEPT
A. His progeny/seed would multiply into a great nation
B. His descendants would get the land of Canaan
C. All humankind would be blessed through him
D. His descendants would be kings and rule forever
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32. What did Abraham and Sarah struggle with?
A. Having no home
B. Sarah’s inability to have children
C. Famine in the promised land
D. Abraham’s attraction to Hagar his servant girl
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33. What was Lot’s relationship to Abraham?
A. He was his grandson
B. He was his cousin
C. He was his nephew
D. He was his brother
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34. What was a demonstration of Abraham’s faith?
A. His willingness to sacrifice Isaac
B. His willingness to marry Sarah
C. His willingness to fight against Abimelech
D. His confessing of God to Pharaoh
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35. Who were twins born to Rebekah, Isaac’s wife?
A. Joseph and Benjamin
B. Jacob and Esau
C. Cain and Abel
D. Judah and Levi
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36. Who did Jacob trick getting the blessing intended for his brother?
A. Esau
B. Abraham
C. Isaac
D. Rebekah
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37. Where does Jacob meet God?
A. Haran
B. Jerusalem
C. Jordan River
D. Bethel
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38. Who is Jacob’s uncle for whom he works for seven years?
A. Abimelech
B. Laban
C. Melchizedek
D. Terah
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39. Who was Jacob tricked into marrying by Laban?
A. Rachel
B. Rebekah
C. Hagar
D. Leah
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40. What does Jacob experience at Bethel when he first meets God?
A. A stairway to heaven
B. An angel whom he wrestles with
C. Esau trying to kill him
D. A vision of the heavenly council
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41. Who are the direct parents of the twelve tribes of Israel?
A. Jacob and his wives
B. Abraham and Sarah
C. Isaac and Rebekah
D. Lot and his wife
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42. What does Jacob do at Peniel?
A. He fights with Laban
B. He has to offer his son as a sacrifice
C. He wrestles with God
D. He builds and altar to the Lord
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43. What does the name Israel mean?
A. Heel-grabber
B. Deceiver
C. Father of many
D. Struggles with God
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44. Who were the two favored sons of Rachel?
A. Judah and Levi
B. Joseph and Benjamin
C. Dan and Ephraim
D. Manassah and Gad
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45. Where does Rachel die?
A. Outside of Bethlehem
B. Inside of Jerusalem
C. Near Hebron
D. At the well of Beersheba
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46. Who is the mother of Joseph?
A. Leah
B. Sarah
C. Rebekah
D. Rachel
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47. Why is Joseph thrown into prison?
A. For not being able to interpret dreams for Pharaoh
B. For resisting the advances of Potiphar’s wife
C. For wanting to return to Israel out of Egypt
D. For being a foreigner and not loyal to Pharaoh
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48. Where was Jacob and his father’s buried?
A. In the tomb of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
B. In the cave of Machpelah by Hebron
C. Outside the gate of Beersheba
D. In the tomb of Pharaoh’s servants in Egypt
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49. What does Moses take with him on the way out of Egypt?
A. The bones of Jacob
B. The bones of Isaac
C. The bones of Joseph
D. The ark of the covenant
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50. What was humankind charged with in the creation account?
A. To have dominion/rule over God’s creation
B. To obey and submit to the Lord their God
C. To keep the decrees and statutes of God
D. To care for the animals in the garden
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51. What does Genesis present as the root of human identity?
A. We are made to multiply
B. We are made in the image of God
C. We are made to live with God
D. We are made to worship God
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52. What does Genesis teach about human choices?
A. Human’s can make moral choices
B. Choices define who we are
C. Choices have consequences
D. Human’s can reason and decide
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53. What is one of the main teaching of Genesis that is unique among the ancient cultures?
A. Monotheism
B. Transcendance
C. Forgiveness and love
D. Revelation from the divine
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54. In what is election seen in the book of Genesis?
A. God’s wrestling with Jacob
B. God’s asking Abraham to sacrifice his son
C. God’s choice of Abraham
D. God’s redemption
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55. What two concepts must be balanced as seen in Genesis?
A. Transcendance and immanence
B. Forgiveness and consequences
C. Divine election and human choice
D. Obedience and initiative
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56. What is a covenant as in the Abrahamic Covenant?
A. A truce
B. A promise
C. An altar
D. A sign
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57. What is the Hebrew word for covenant?
A. Toledot
B. Bereshit
C. Hesed
D. Berith
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58. How does the covenant take shape in the time of David?
A. Focuses on kingship
B. Focuses on the multiplication of descendants
C. Focuses on the land
D. Focuses on the Anointed One
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59. How do the prophets fit into the idea of covenant?
A. They bring a covenant lawsuit against Israel based on the covenant
B. They proclaimed the covenant and taught it’s principles
C. They lived in accord with the covenant
D. They used the covenant to guide their oversight of the priesthood of Israel
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