Quiz: A New View of God and the
Individual
HIEU 201 Week 1/module 1
The historical significance of Israelite law was that it
a. introduced the idea of private property as the most important concept in society.
b. rejected protection of the widows, orphans, and slaves.
c. demonstrated greater ethical awareness than other legal codes of the Near East.
d. embraced the idea that law should treat people differently depending on their wealth.
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(The correct answer is b. demonstrated greater ethical awareness than other legal
codes of the Near East.)
The biblical account of the Exodus identifies ________ as leading the Hebrews out of
Egypt.
a. Abraham
b. Saul
c. David
d. Moses
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In the history of the Hebrew people, the covenant has served to
a. justify the exploitation and oppression of the weakest members of society.
b. encourage the Hebrews to turn inward and take a very limited role in human affairs.
c. emphasize the all-importance of the Hebrew nation over all other people.
d. emphasize the unique relationship of God to the Israelites as a chosen people that had accepted God's moral code.
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The Hebrews' concept of Yahweh
a. views Yahweh as one of many gods, all deserving honor and obedience by humans.
b. emphasizes the God's power as ruler of all and subject to none.
c. is similar to that of other ancient monotheisms, such as the worship of Aton in Egypt.
d. shows that they were monotheists from their earliest days in Mesopotamia.
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Which of the following describes the Hebrews' relationship with the natural world?
a. The Hebrews demystified nature by creating theoretical science.
b. God was a part of nature and was thus affected by numerous natural forces like storms.
c. Natural phenomena were the result of God's handiwork.
d. Nature was divine, and natural phenomena were invested with supernatural qualities.
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The Hebrews' belief in moral responsibility resulted from
a. an emphasis on the family as the source of morality.
b. pride in oneself.
c. an awareness of individual human beings as having free will to act.
d. communal traditions.
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Which of the following is a fundamental Hebrew belief about the individual?
a. Human beings lacked the power to choose between righteousness and wickedness.
b. Human beings ranked equally with all other elements of God's creation.
c. God desired his people to grovel before him and forbid them the capacity to take responsibility for their conduct.
d. God did not create people to be his slaves.
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All of the following is true of universalism in Hebrew thought EXCEPT
a. its concern for all humanity.
b. its contradiction of the narrow, tribal origins of Hebrew society.
c. its stress on the special nature and destiny of the Hebrews as God's chosen people.
d. its emphasis that Israel was charged to lead in the struggle against idolatry.
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The first five books of the Old Testament are known as the
a. Torah.
b. Talmud.
c. Quintarch.
d. Tanak.
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The Old Testament discussed slaves
a. as deserving no protection.
b. as human beings deserving justice and moral treatment.
c. in the same way as all other ancient Near Eastern law.
d. as the absolute property of the slave-owner, to do with as he wished.
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The Hebrews originated in
a. Canaan.
b. Mesopotamia.
c. Egypt.
d. Palestine.
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Under the rule of David's son Solomon,
a. old tribal patterns gained renewed strength.
b. Israel reached the height of its power and prosperity.
c. Jerusalem decreased in importance.
d. the Israelites lost Jerusalem to the Philistines.
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The Old Testament
a. depicts demigods as its heroes.
b. explores only human weakness and cruelty.
c. is a record of ancient Jewish history compiled by research historians.
d. describes the efforts of the Jews to understand the ways of God.
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During the flowering of the prophetic movement, the Hebrew prophets
a. saw poverty and injustice as facts of life that would be futile to oppose.
b. embraced parochialism and believed Israel's sacred mission was to focus on the chosen people alone.
c. preached social responsibility and criticized those who emphasized accumulation of possessions and wealth.
d. insisted that Yahweh would be pleased only by the observance of proper rituals and ceremonies.
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The Hebrews thought of Yahweh as
a. a superhuman deity who required food, drink, sleep, and sexual gratification.
b. the great creator of the universe, who had then withdrawn entirely from earthly affairs.
c. fully powerful and therefore fully free.
d. a universal spirit that resided in the elements of nature, such as the earth, the moon, and the sun.
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The legacy of the ancient Jews includes all of the following EXCEPT
a. the value Westerners place on the individual.
b. the idea that all time is cyclical.
c. monotheism.
d. a fundamental component of Christianity.
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The Hebrews regarded history as
a. a great cycle, with the same events occurring over and over again.
b. a process leading to a goal.
c. the random result of human acts.
d. a purely secular subject.
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During the eleventh century B.C., the leadership of Saul united the ________ Hebrew
tribes in Canaan.
a. twelve
b. two
c. ten
d. twenty
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After the fall of Israel to the Assyrians in 722 B.C.
a. thousands of Hebrews were exiled to Syria.
b. the prophets Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah declared that the Hebrews had been forsaken by Yahweh.
c. many Hebrews lost their identity as the people of God.
d. the Hebrews experienced an immediate return to their former power.
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Under Hebrew law, within the family
a. a divorce could be granted by request of either the husband or wife.
b. women were treated as property.
