Understanding the Bible: Sixth Edition, 6/e

Stephen Harris, California State University--Sacramento

The Torah: Five Books of Divine Instruction (The Pentateuch)

Questions on Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy

Multiple Choice Quiz


1	In Leviticus, the Israelites are permitted to eat
		A)	catfish
		B)	cattle
		C)	lobster
		D)	chicken


2	According to Leviticus women are impure for how long after giving birth to a daughter:
		A)	one week
		B)	one day
		C)	twenty-eight days
		D)	at least sixty-six days


3	The Day of Atonement is also known as
		A)	Azazel
		B)	Yom Kippur
		C)	New Year's Day
		D)	Hannukah


4	The prophet whose donkey speaks to him is
		A)	Jethro
		B)	Zimri
		C)	Aaron
		D)	Balaam


5	For their unfaithfulness, the Israelites are condemned by God to wander in the wilderness for
		A)	forty days
		B)	ten years
		C)	forty years
		D)	four hundred years


6	The name Deuteronomy means
		A)	the rule by two people
		B)	the second law
		C)	false law
		D)	scholars don't know


7	One of the chief differences between the law as presented in Deuteronomy and that of Exodus is the
		A)	lex talionis
		B)	a different list of 10 commandments
		C)	abolition of slavery
		D)	the insistence on worship in a central sanctuary


8	The lex talionis refers to the concept of
		A)	the Ten Commandments
		B)	the Holiness Code
		C)	the treatment of foreigners
		D)	an eye for an eye


9	As described in Deuteronomy 15, the Sabbatical year is
		A)	a year professors get a vacation
		B)	a year when every day is the Sabbath
		C)	the seventh year, when all land lies fallow
		D)	none of the above


10	Where was Moses buried?
		A)	the Israelites took his body with them into the Promised Land
		B)	on Mt Nebo
		C)	in the land of Moab
		D)	in the wilderness

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