Verified Test Bank In The Wilderness Chapter 9

Chapter 9: In the Wilderness

Test Bank

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 01

1. Describe the figure of Miriam. Explain her complicated, and at times contradictory, relationships with Aaron and Moses. How is she important to the overall Exodus and wilderness narratives?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 02

2. Describe the rebellions in the wilderness that punctuate the book of Numbers. What is their narrative function? What is their function in the larger biblical context?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 03

3. Are Israel’s encounters with the inhabitants of the territories through which the Israelites passed en route to the Promised Land historical? What is the significance of the accounts of opposition that the Israelite’s encountered along their journey?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 04

4. What roles do the different priests and priestly houses play in Numbers? Why are the repeated transgressions on the part of these priests important to the narrative as a whole and P in particular?

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 09 Question 01

1. The Israelites finally enter the Promised Land at the end of the book of Numbers.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 09 Question 02

2. All of the laws included in Numbers are repetitions of laws found in Exodus and Leviticus.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 09 Question 03

3. The Levites receive no tribal territory in the Promised Land.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 09 Question 04

4. The census statistics in Numbers include all Israelite men, women, and children.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 09 Question 05

5. All biblical sources make unequivocally clear that Miriam is the sister of Moses.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 09 Question 06

6. Inheritance was patrilineal according to Israelite law.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 09 Question 07

7. The Amalekites are never mentioned in a nonbiblical source.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 09 Question 08

8. In Numbers the underworld is referred to as Sheol.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 09 Question 09

9. The Deir Alla texts confirm almost all of the details of the biblical account of Balaam, the son of Beor.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 09 Question 10

10. The arrangement of the Israelite camp in Numbers 2 strictly follows actual geography.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 01

1. According to _____________, the Israelites spent most of their forty-year sojourn in the wilderness at the site of Kadesh:

a. J

b. P

c. Deuteronomy

d. E

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 02

2. Moses and Aaron are condemned by God following the events at:

a. Midian

b. Hebron

c. Meribah

d. Kadesh

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 03

3. The Amalekites appear to have been herders of:

a. camels

b. sheep

c. goats

d. cattle

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 04

4. Caleb was of _____________ descent.

a. Israelite

b. Kenizzite

c. Moabite

d. Egyptian

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 05

5. The scouts return from the land of Canaan with all of the following except:

a. grapes

b. pomegranates

c. honey

d. figs

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 06

6. The use of an ordeal to prove cases of adultery is found in both Numbers and:

a. Code of Hammurapi

b. Deir Alla texts

c. Lachish Letters

d. all of these

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 07

7. The seraphim are:

a. serpents

b. peoples

c. quarrels

d. priests

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 08

8. P alters the genealogy of Caleb to make him a member of the tribe of:

a. Judah

b. Benjamin

c. Ephraim

d. Levi

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 09

9. The rebellions by the priests Dathan and Abiram provide an etiology for the decline of the tribe of ____________:

a. Levi

b. Reuben

c. Manasseh

d. Simeon

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 10

10. The law that guaranteed the priests a share of the offerings was called the:

a. covenant of salt

b. covenant of peace

c. Covenant Code

d. eternal covenant

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 11

11. The king of _____________ hired Balaam to curse the Israelites?

a. the Amalekites

b. Midian

c. Moab

d. Bashan

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 12

12. The Israelites’ last stop before entering the Promised Land was:

a. Kadesh

b. Shittim

c. Hebron

d. Sinai

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 13

13. The episode of the scouts in Numbers 13-14 is reminiscent of the story of _______________?

a. the plagues

b. the revelation of the Ten Commandments

c. the golden calf

d. the Ritual Decalogue

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 14

14. The national deity of the Moabites was:

a. Baal

b. Re

c. Chemosh

d. Ptah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 15

15. According to the case of the daughters of Zelophehad, the daughters could only

keep their inheritance if they:

a. took a vow

b. married within the tribe

c. paid for it

d. were already married

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 16

16. The bronze snake that was offered incense at the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem

was called:

a. seraphim

b. Massa

c. Korah

d. Nehushtan

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 17

17. A term used for the deified dead is:

a. bemidbar

b. Rephaim

c. shadday

d. nazirite

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 18

18. He claimed that all of Israel was holy and therefore the leadership of Moses and

Aaron was unjustified:

a. Abiram

b. Og

c. Yahweh

d. Korah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 19

19. How many cities of refuge were given to the Levites?

a. two

b. six

c. ten

d. forty-eight

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 Question 20

20. ______________ dedicated themselves to the deity by abstaining from alcohol, leaving their hair uncut, and avoiding any contact with a corpse.

a. Nazirites

b. Priests

c. Midianites

d. Amalekites

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 09 Question 01

1. The two priests who reject Moses’s leadership and want to return to Egypt are ______________ and ________________.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 09 Question 02

2. A nonbiblical source that discusses Balaam son of Beor was found at _______________.

a. Deir Alla

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 09 Question 03

3. The closest male relative who is legally responsible for his kin, usually relating to matters of death or property, is called the _________________.

a. avenger of blood

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 09 Question 04

4. The Hebrew title for the book of Numbers refers to its setting in _______________.

a. the wilderness

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 09 Question 05

5. The site of Kadesh or Kadesh-barnea is often associated with the archaeological site of _________________________ in the northern Sinai.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 09 Question 06

6. The prescribed purification for someone who came in contact with a corpse was the sacrifice of a(n) ________________.

a. red cow

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 09 Question 07

7. The two scouts who argued that Canaan should be invaded were _______________ and _____________.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 09 Question 08

8. Yahweh commanded Moses to defeat the ___________________, a group with whom Moses and the Israelites had previously appeared to be friendly, during their journey to the Promised Land.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 09 Question 09

9. ______________ is afflicted with a skin disease as punishment for protesting Moses’ marriage to a non-Israelite.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 09 Question 10

10. The wife accused of adultery must drink the _________________.

a. water of bitterness