Coogan Full Test Bank From Egypt To Sinai Ch.7

Chapter 7: From Egypt to Sinai

Test Bank

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 01

1. What are the elements of a Hittite suzerainty treaty? What evidence exists in the biblical for the use of these elements by the biblical writers? What is the significance of its usage for the biblical writers?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 02

2. What terms are typical of covenant vocabulary? What light does the vocabulary of ancient Near Eastern suzerainty shed on the biblical depiction of Yahweh’s relationship with Israel?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 03

3. Three major covenants (Noah and God, Abraham and God, Israel and God. have been discussed so far in this book. How are these covenants different from each other? How have they shaped the biblical texts and the history of ancient Israel?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 04

4. Discuss the original context of the Ten Commandments. Who was the primary audience for the Decalogue?

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 07 Question 01

1. In many ways the Ten Commandments resemble treaty forms from the ancient Near East.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 07 Question 02

2. Israel was allowed to collect manna every day of the week.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 07 Question 03

3. All existing suzerainty treaties come from Egypt.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 07 Question 04

4. The Israelites do not leave Sinai until the book of Numbers.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 07 Question 05

5. The Ten Commandments create a covenant between Yahweh and the descendants of Abraham.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 07 Question 06

6. A suzerain-vassal relationship is often described in husband-wife terms.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 07 Question 07

7. The Ten Commandments appear only in the book of Exodus.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 07 Question 08

8. Covenant language and vocabulary applied to the relationship between the divine and humans are found throughout the ancient Near East.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 07 Question 09

9. Moses is the only human who sees God in Exodus 16–24.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 07 Question 10

10. The Ten Commandments express monolatry.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 01

1. How many versions of the Ten Commandments appear in the Pentateuch?

a. one

b. two

b. three

d. four

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 02

2. The Israelites stay at Sinai for nearly:

a. three months

b. one year

b. three years

d. forty years

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 03

3. In addition to manna, God also provided the Israelites with __________ to eat:

a. generic fowl

b. quail

b. dove

d. rooster

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 04

4. Who is credited with the establishment of the judiciary in Exodus?

a. Moses

b. Aaron

b. Joshua

d. Jethro

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 05

5. The region south of Egypt known as Nubia is sometimes called _________ in the

Bible.

a. Cush

b. Moab

b. Libya

d. Sinai

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 06

7. All are names of Moses’s father-in-law in the Bible except:

a. Jethro

b. Hiram

b. Reuel

d. Hobab

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 08

8. The ___________ source is organized around three covenants, those between God and Noah, God and Abraham, and God and Israel.

a. J

b. E

b. D

d. P

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 09

9. Midian is probably located in:

a. Arabia

b. Sinai

b. Syria

d. Egypt

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 10

10. Most existing suzerainty treaties contain all of the following except:

a. divine witnesses

b. a history of the relationship between the parties

b. blessings and curses

d. lengthy genealogies

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 11

11. All of the following provide covenant analogues for the relationship between Yahweh and Israel except:

a. husband-wife

b. parent-child

b. diplomatic partners

d. brothers

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 12

12. All of the following describe manna except:

a. seed-shaped

b. doesn’t spoil

b. flaky

d. white

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 13

13. The creation of the judiciary distributed Moses’s authority and burden to _________ elders:

a. 60

b. 70

b. 72

d. 100

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 14

14. All of the following were manifestations of Yahweh when he gave the Ten Commandments except:

a. cloud

b. thunder and lightning

b. earthquake

d. eclipse

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 15

15. Hittite treaties may include the following elements except:

a. Identification of the suzerain

b. Stipulations imposed on the vassal

b. Human witnesses to the treaty

d. Blessing for observance of the treaty

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 16

16. Israel’s prophetic literature frequently uses the genre of _______________, in which Yahweh sues Israel for breach of contract.

a. covenant lawsuit

b. historical narrative

b. aphorism

d. lamentation

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 17

17. Deuteronomy invokes ___________________ as witnesses to the covenant between Yahweh and Israel:

a. the sun and the moon

b. the mountains and the stars

b. the gods of the pantheon

d. heaven and earth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 18

18. The Hebrew idiom usually translated “to make a covenant” literally means “to ________ a covenant”:

a. mold

b. cut

b. burn

d. honor

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 19

19. All of the following are considered evidence of the antiquity of the Decalogue except:

a. the presence of three different versions

b. the use of treaty elements

b. its agrarian setting

d. references to it in eight century BCE prophets

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 20

20. Moses and other Israelite representatives shared a meal with god as part of:

a. the covenant ratification process

b. the depositing of treaty copies in the ark

b. a test of loyalty

d. negotiations over the covenant stipulations

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 07 Question 01

1. Divinely given “bread from heaven” is called_____________.

a. manna

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 07 Question 02

2. Another name for the Ten Commandments is________________.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 07 Question 03

3. The ___________ is the sign of the Sinai covenant.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 07 Question 04

4. The type of treaty in which one party is superior to the other is a(n) ____________.

a. suzerainty treaty

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 07 Question 05

5. A sample of ______________ is said to have been stored in the ark of the covenant.

a. manna

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 07 Question 06

6. The set of laws that follows the Ten Commandments is called the ___________.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 07 Question 07

7. The term meaning “contract” that is used metaphorically to describe the relationship between God and Israel is____________.

a. covenant

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 07 Question 08

8. The mountain of God is traditionally identified as __________ in southern Sinai.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 07 Question 09

9. The type of treaty where the two parties are assumed to be equals is a(n)___________.

a. parity treaty

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 07 Question 10

10. ­­­­­­____________, the territory to the east of the northeast arm of the Red Sea, is a possible location for the site of the “mountain of God.”