Ch.3 Creations Test Bank Docx

Chapter 3: Creations

Test Bank

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 01

1. After reading both of the Genesis creation accounts, what major differences in vocabulary, style, and order do you recognize? What differences in meaning are present in each of the creation myths?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 02

2. The creation stories in Genesis show remarkable similarities to myths from other cultures, especially Babylon. What themes are most similar? Where did the writers of Genesis take great care to demythologize the Near Eastern accounts? Why did they do this?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 03

3. Compare Enuma Elish with the first creation account in Genesis. How does knowledge of this Babylonian creation epic enrich our understanding of the story of creation in seven days?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 04

4. What is the purpose of each of the two creation accounts in Genesis 1-3? What questions about the order of the world and human existence does each author seek to explain? How are they similar and how are they different? How does the purpose of Genesis 1.1-2.4a compare to that of Enuma Elish? How does the purpose of Genesis. 2.4b-3.24 compare to that of Gilgamesh?

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 01

1. God’s rest on the seventh day after creation is meant to demonstrate divine creation of the sabbath day.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 02

2. The book of Genesis can be dated securely to the second millennium bce.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 03

3. The title “the Lord” is a good translation for the personal name of the Israelite God.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 04

4. The two creation stories in Genesis suggest that there was more than one author.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 05

5. The goal of source criticism is to identify, and sometimes reconstruct, separate literary strata within the Bible.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 06

6. Both Enuma Elish and the Garden of Eden narrative associate a snake with a plant that imparts immortality.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 07

7. Enkidu is another name that appears in the Bible for the primeval watery adversary.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 08

8. The depiction of the deity in Genesis’s first creation story is anthropomorphic.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 09

9. In the Gilgamesh epic, Utnapishtim and his wife are the only humans whom the gods had ever made immortal.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 10

10. Adam and Eve eat prohibited fruit from the tree of life in the Garden of Eden.

a) True

b) False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 01

1. The river that flows out of Eden divides into all of the following rivers except:

a. Tigris

b. Nile

c. Euphrates

d. Pishon

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 02

2. In the second biblical creation account (Gen 2-3), Eve is created by God out of:

a. the ground

b. Adam’s thigh

c. Adam’s rib

d. nothing

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 03

3. The name “Adam” is related to the Hebrew word for:

a. a god

b. soil

c. water

d. king

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 04

4. The second biblical creation account (Gen 2-3) includes all of the following except:

a. the Garden of Eden

b. creation of humans

c. a snake

d. God resting

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 05

5. In the Enuma Elish, the earth is formed out of:

a. Enkidu’s blood

b. Tiamat’s body

c. Atrahasis’ boat

d. Baal’s heart

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 06

6. All of the following themes from Genesis have parallels in Near Eastern texts

except:

a. divine council

b. divine rest on the seventh day

c. creation of humans

d. a snake

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 07

7. The menorah, a seven-branched candlestick of Jewish tradition, is probably a representation of _____________.

a. the tree of life

b. the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

c. Leviathan

d. a fertility statue

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 08

8. The hero god of the Enuma Elish is:

a. Tiamat

b. Enkidu

c. Marduk

d. Apsu

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 09

9. The primeval sea monster is also called:

a. Leviathan

b. Qingu

c. Enkidu

d. Utnapishtim

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 10

10. Gilgamesh was the legendary ruler of the central Mesopotamian city of:

a. Babylon

b. Uruk

c. Cush

d. Ras Shamra

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 11

11. Tiamat, the goddess of the salt waters, mixes with ______________, the god of the fresh water to create the first generation of gods.

a. Apsu

b. Atrahasis

c. Nanna

d. Qingu

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 12

12. All are created during the seven days of creation in Genesis 1-2.4a except:

a. animals

b. plants

c. storm clouds

d. heavenly bodies

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 13

13. In Genesis 1-2.4a, God creates the world from:

a. nothing

b. a watery chaos

c. primeval mud

d. lightning

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 14

15. Immediately after the man and woman eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, all of the following occur, except:

a. they become like God

b. the soil becomes resistant to their efforts

c. they die

d. they cover their genitals with fig leaves

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 16

16. All of the following point to the presence of multiple sources in a text except:

a. differences in worldview or theology

b. doublets

c. differences in vocabulary

d. all of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 17

17. Sabbath observance begins at:

a. sunrise

b. noon

c. sundown

d. midnight

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 18

18. In Enuma Elish, humans are created from:

a. Qingu’s blood

b. the mixing of salt and fresh waters

c. divine speech

d. clay

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 19

19. Enuma Elish was recited annually in Babylon during a festival celebrating the:

a. fall harvest

b. spring new year

c. full moon

d. summer solstice

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 20

20. All are later developments in the interpretation of Genesis’s second creation story except:

a. Satan

b. an afterlife

c. forbidden fruit

d. original sin

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 03 Question 01

1. When a deity is described with human qualities and characteristics, it is called______________.

a. anthropomorphism

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Title: Chapter 03 Question 02

2. The assembly of gods is called the ____________________.

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Title: Chapter 03 Question 03

3. The ________________ gives immortality and eternal youth.

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Title: Chapter 03 Question 04

4. The title “the Lord” is not a translation but rather a pious substitution for the sacred and personal named of the Israelite god, _________________.

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Title: Chapter 03 Question 05

5. ____________________ is the methodological approach that attempts to delineate separate hypothetical sources that lie behind the existing biblical text.

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Title: Chapter 03 Question 06

6. Gilgamesh’s Sasquatch-like friend was named_______________________.

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Title: Chapter 03 Question 07

7. Another name for a creation account is_______________________.

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Title: Chapter 03 Question 08

8. Enuma Elish is actually a second millennium BCE hymn in praise of _____________________.

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Title: Chapter 03 Question 09

9. A narrative in which the principal characters are gods is a _________________.

a. myth

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Title: Chapter 03 Question 10

10. Genesis 1 calls the deity ______________, one of the most frequent titles used for the god of Israel in the Bible.

a. elohim