Exam on Thursday, should take 40 minutes to complete. 100 points
Useful Links:
1. http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Publications/frye.html

Test will cover Plotz's chapters on:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy,  Joshua, Judges


Here is a general idea of what the questions are going to be:
1. What is the shape of the Bible, according to Northrop Frye?
      A - a U-shape, or the shape of comedy (because it ends happily).
Note: The Apocalypse is not a tragedy.

2.  Why is the Bible a comedy according to Northrop Frye?
     A - Because it has a happy ending.
3. Why does Frye believe the Bible is unified? 
    A - in terms of imagery and in terms of narrative structure
Note: God is the male and society as Israel is the female.
4. In a patriarchy, even men are ___(blank)____
    A - In a patriarchy, most people are women. Only a select group of men are patriarchs, or fathers. So even men are women
5. In monotheism, what is the view on other gods?
     A - only one god exists. Not only are any other gods less powerful, they don't even exist. Monolotry kills off the other gods. 
6. What trumps the rights of women?
      A - The rules of patriarchal hospitality
7. What is the significance of the "feminine"? The "female"? The "woman"?
     A - There is a difference between the "feminine", the "female," and a "woman." The feminine is symbolic, the female is a biological construct, the woman is an actual character in the Bible. Eve and Zipporah are examples of the "feminine".
8. In the Bible, from where does the feminine originate?
     A - The female is secondary, while the male is primary. The female comes from the male (as in Adam's rib). The ability of giving birth comes from the male.
9. What is Couvade?
     A - a condition in which the husband or partner of an expectant mother experiences some of the same symptoms and behavior as the mother. "childbirth envy"
10. What are The Epistles?
     A - A major literary form, literally the "letters", the collection of letters that make up the canon of the New Testament
11. What are the seven parts of the Bible according to Frye?
     A - Creation, Exodus, Law, Wisdom, Prophecy, Gospel, Apocalypse
(Classless Emus Like Watching Penguins Go Asunder)
12. Which son was originally intended to be blessed by Joshua?
     A - Esau
13. True or False: Lillith was the other wife of Adam, according to the Bible. 
     A - False: Lillith is not in the Bible.
14. What is a Lacuna?
     A - An unexplained gap in a story. It is best to compare stories to understand this definition: In Homer's Odyssey, every little bit of information is given so that you can't interpolate the story. However, in Genesis 22, we are given a minimal amount of detail, and can therefore interpolate the story
15. What Levitical Law prohibits Rachel's father from searching the saddlebags beneath her?
     A - It is taboo to even approach a woman during menstruation.
Note: Rachel had taken the teraphim (Rachel's father's household gods) from her father, which is why he wished to search the bags.
Why is the Book of Ruth and the Story of Tamar in the positions they are in?
     A - They provide geneologies that interrelate the characters of the Bible. Or, they provide geneaological  continuity
16. What does Tamar dress herself as in order to have "issue" (to have children)?
     A -  A harlot
17. For whom does God have a preference?
     A - The least likely person for the task.
18. Plotz says that the Ten Commandments are _____ in the Bible.
     A - not present
19. What are the two views concerning the authorship of the Pentateuch?
     A - 1. Moses wrote the first five  books.
           2. That the first five books had several authors.
20. Who are the "scholarly" authors of the Pentateuch?
     A - JEDPR: Jehovist, Elohist, Deuteronomist, Priestly, Redactor
21. How did Zipporah save Moses from being smited by the vengeful God?
     A - She circumcises her son and holds the foreskin between the legs of Moses.
Note: This is a symbolic indicator of one's commitment. This is common: a mutilation to prove faith. Like tattoos and scars.
22. What style is indicative of the P writer?
     A - The P writer is very concerned with ritual and geneaologies.
23. What style is indicative of the J writer?
      A - 
24. What does "apocalypse" mean?
      A - "lifting of the veil"
25. What is the rainbow in the Bible?
     A - an etiological element; and a symbol of the covenant with Noah to never drown the earth again.
26. Why do women give birth in pain, why do snakes crawl on their bellies, and why must men toil upon the earth?
     A - Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit.
27. What did God say his name was to Moses?
     A - YHWH, or "I am that I am"
28. Why was Jacob renamed Israel?
     A - Wrestling with the Angel at the break of day provided Jacob with a transformative experience, and thus he became the name of his people and nation.
29. What was the punishment for the Tower of Babel?
     A - God "confused the languages"  so that people couldn't understand each other. This was to make it impossible for the people to reach heaven.
30. What are the four images that Frye sees as primary archetypal images?
     A - The cave, the furnace, the mountain, and the garden
31. What aspects of Biblical literature inspired Shakespeare, Chaucer, Eliot?
     A - repetitive parallelism, or the practice of saying the same thing twice, but in different ways.
32. Who Jane Eyre's favorite writer in the Bible?
     A - The J writer.
33. What is the major event in Jewish mythology?
     A - The exodus from Egypt
Note: The central identity of the Israelite people is that they were led out from bondage. They are always a displaced people.
34. In what year did the southern kingdom fall?
     A - 587 BCE
35. Why did God kill Onan?
     A - He spilled his seed.