Escape From Egypt Test Bank Coogan Ch.6

Chapter 6: Escape from Egypt

Test Bank

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 01

1. Why is the character of Moses so important to the formation of ancient Israel’s identity? What aspects of his life and personality make him a “typical” Near Eastern hero?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 02

2. Could the Exodus from Egypt be a historical event? What historical and literary factors suggest that the Exodus actually occurred? What details of the story are unlikely to be historical?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 03

3. What significant changes in religious belief occurred throughout much of the ancient world at the end of the Late Bronze Age? How did these changes affect the beliefs and practices of Israel? What specific evidence for these changes exists in the book of Exodus?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 04

4. How does the version of the call of Moses found in P differ from the other account of Moses’ call? What is the significance of these differences?

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 06 Question 01

1. The Bible tells us that Rameses II is the pharaoh who releases Israel from bondage.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 06 Question 02

2. In the Late Bronze Age, El became the chief Ugaritic god.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 06 Question 03

3. The word “exodus” is Greek for “going out.”

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 06 Question 04

4. Both the Puritans who settled in the American colonies and the enslaved Africans who were forcibly brought to the American colonies viewed their oppressors Pharaoh.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 06 Question 05

5. The name “Moses” is drawn from an Egyptian word meaning “to be born.”

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 06 Question 06

6. The account of the plagues in the Exodus matches the number and order of the description of the plagues in Pslams 78.44–51 and 105.28–36.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 06 Question 07

7. According to the earliest traditions, Passover was originally a pilgrimage festival.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 06 Question 08

8. God appears to Moses in the form of a burning bush in the P account of the call of Moses.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 06 Question 09

9. Moses’s parents were both from the house of Levi.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 06 Question 10

10. Egyptian priests are often referred to as “magicians” in Exodus.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 01

1. Egyptian documentation of the Exodus refers to all of the following except:

a. Moses

b. Aaron

c. the plagues

d. none of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 02

2. Moses’s father-in-law is________.

a. pharaoh

b. Jochebed

c. Amram

d. Jethro

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 03

3. Moses does not want to lead the people because:

a. he was related to pharaoh

b. he wanted Aaron to do it

c. God told him not to do so

d. he had a speech impediment

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 04

4. “The sons of ____________” is a term for the priests who officiated in the Temple of Jerusalem.

a. Aaron

b. Jacob

c. Phineas

d. Moses

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 05

5. The Amarna Letters date to the reign of:

a. Akhenaten

b. Rameses II

c. Seti I

d. Merneptah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 06

6. All of the following are associated with Sinai except:

a. Horeb

b. a burning bush

c. the mountain of God

d. Zaphon

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 07

7. According to the biblical chronology, the events of the Exodus occur in the __________century bce.

a. sixteenth

b. fifteenth

c. fourteenth

d. thirteenth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 08

8. Aaron is featured most prominently in which source?

a. J

b. E

c. P

d. D

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 09

9. The name Yahweh may originally have been a kind of title or epithet identifying the deity as a:

a. ancestral god

b. storm god

c. creator

d. fire god

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 10

10. All of the following titles are associated with Miriam except:

a. midwife

b. sister of Moses

c. prophet

d. author of the Song of the Sea

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 11

11. In Jewish tradition the book of Exodus is known as:

a. Egypt

b. Names

c. Moses

d. Commandments

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 12

12. In Ugaritic myth, the storm-god is known as:

a. Baal

b. Yahweh

c. Re

d. Zeus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 13

13. Divine figures are often reluctant to give their names because naming suggests:

a. control

b. weakness

c. absence

d. mercy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 14

14. The closest parallel to Moses’s rescue from the Nile is the account of:

a. Jesus

b. Dionysus

c. Sargon

d. Utnapishtim

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 15

15. The divine name was considered so sacred that the high priest used it only on:

a. New Year’s Day

b. Passover

c. the Day of Atonement

d. never

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 16

16. _______________ was known as “Moses” to those who traveled the Underground Railroad in the nineteenth century CE:

a. Frederick Douglass

b. Levi Coffin

c. Harriet Tubman

d. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 17

17. All are mentioned in Exodus as part of the Passover meal except:

a. lamb

b. herbs

c. wine

d. bread

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 18

18. Moses’s son was circumcised by:

a. Moses

b. Aaron

c. Zipporah

d. Jethro

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 19

19. According to historical narratives, the national celebration of Passover in Israel

was part of the religious reforms of what two kings?

a. David and Solomon

b. Abimelech and Jeroboam I

c. Saul and Zedekiah

d. Hezekiah and Josiah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 06 Question 20

20. Most scholars agree that the Exodus should be dated to the ____________ century bce.

a. fifteenth

b. thirteenth

c. twelfth

d. tenth

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 06 Question 01

1. Baal resides in a palace of cedar, silver, gold, and precious stones on Mount ________.

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 02

2. Moses’s Midianite wife was named ______________.

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 03

3. The appearance of God before humans is called a(n)_____________.

a. theophany

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 04

4. The earliest Near Eastern text that mentions any person, event, or entity from the Bible is the_______________.

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 05

5. Prince Sea and Judge River are titles for the adversaries of ______________.

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 06

6. The Song of the Sea, a hymn that appears in Exodus 15.1–18, is attributed to both ________________ and _______________.

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 07

7. The ______________ may have been developed from two originally distinct festivals, including the agricultural festival of unleavened bread.

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 08

8. The two Egyptian midwives who helped the Hebrews when pharaoh orders the death of newborn boys are_____________ and _____________.

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 09

9. The escapees from Israel crossed a body of water called yam suf, which means_______________.

a. Reed Sea

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 10

10. The Semitic rulers of Egypt who were expelled in the mid-sixteenth century bce are called the ____________.