Quiz: The Importance of Deep Reading

Evaluate the following statement: “Most people master the art of reading by the time they reach first or second grade. After that, it is just a matter of increasing one’s vocabulary.”

One of the biggest problems in the Christian world is…

What does “active reading” involve in contrast with “passive reading”?

Early Christian writers saw in the food restrictions of Leviticus 11 a lesson for us Christians. The “clean” land animals suitable for eating must BOTH have split hooves and chew the cud. They saw the requirement that a “clean” animal “chew the cud” (ruminating, or repeatedly chewing on it throughout the day) as pointing to the fact that the Lord wants us to do what?

Of the four levels of reading highlighted in “How to Read a Book,” the fourth and highest level is syntopical reading. What does syntopical reading involve?

Paul says in Ephesians 2:8-9 that we are saved by grace through faith, “not of works”. On the other hand, James says in James 2 that we cannot be saved if our faith has no works to back it up, and that faith without works is dead. What would be the best way to go about resolving this apparent contradiction between these two New Testament writers?

Evaluate the following statement: “It is fair and appropriate for us to say that Lot was an unrighteous man. After all, in Genesis, it says that he offered his two daughters to the violent men in the crowd, which no righteous father would do. And all we need to know about Lot is in the book of Genesis.”

Evaluate the following statement: “Regardless of the shortcomings we see in Jonah’s life from reading the Book of Jonah, we also need to read from the other books of Scripture where he is discussed, including in the New Testament, if we want to get the most accurate view of how God viewed him.”