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Hebrew Sacred History (Extracts 5-6)
(Wimp Quiz 1)

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1. Two scenes from the life of Moses are often depicted in art: his mother setting him afloat in a basket in the Nile, and his being found when the basket becomes entangled in riverside bull rushes. His mother set him afloat because
she was a priestess, forbidden to have sex, and she knew his very existence would disgrace her 
rumors of a newborn Hebrew rebel-leader-to-be were circulating, and baby boys were being killed as a security measure 
the Lord had appeared to her and instructed her to do this 
there was a great famine in Egypt and she lacked the means to feed a child 
she intended him to capsize as a sacrifice of her firstborn to the Egyptian river god 
No Answer
2. Moses fled from Egypt because
he was being hunted as a murderer 
the Hebrews were subject to corvée labor to build the Great Pyramid, which was being constructed at this time 
the Hebrews were subject to corvée labor repairing the Great Pyramid, which was nearly two thousand years old 
he was repelled by the dissolute life of the Egyptian court and longed for the life of a simple desert herdsman 
most Egyptians drank way too much beer and ate too much goose and goat meat, and Moses was tee-total and a vegetarian, unable to “fit in” with other courtiers, who always teased and mocked him 
he was embarrassed because of two odd bumps on his head that people said looked a bit like horns 
No Answer
3. Seeking refuge among the desert tribes, Moses was received by Reuel/Jethro, who (Select two.)
hired him as a cook 
laughed and laughed at Moses’ shaven head, a relic of his life at the Egyptian court 
was a priest 
gave Moses as a wife Zipporah, one of his seven daughters 
had grown too old to continue to work 
was famed among the desert tribes for his delightful multiple-choice quizzes 
4. One day, after he had lived with Jethro for some years, Moses was tending Jethro’s flocks in the hills near Horeb when he saw bush in flames
and rushed to extinguish the fire before it might spread 
which produced a column of red smoke that could be seen at a great distance 
which seemed to move over the mountain so that it was always directly in front of him, barring his path 
which surprised him because the bush seemed undamaged 
No Answer

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