Bible Quiz #2 -- Garden of Eden

[See "Bible Quiz #1 -- Creation" ]
In addition to its obvious religious importance, the Bible is a significant work of literature. However, much of what we know about the Bible is through hearsay and forgotten lessons. The following is an educational lesson of sorts. It is in "quiz" format, but it will not affect your grade point average.

The Bible in this case refers to the Hebrew Scriptures: the TANACH. For the translation from Hebrew, I will use the American Jewish Version. This quiz will only cover the passages regarding the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2.9-3.23.

I will provide some insight into TANACH passages that are hidden from English readers. If your computer screen does not display the Hebrew characters correctly, it's no big deal, since you cannot read them anyway, right?

For atheists, don't slink away. This is not a religious or theological lesson, nor a conversion attempt. It's just a parsing of a unique piece of literature from a unique perspective.

QUESTIONS

1. What are the only two trees specifically mentioned as being in the Garden of Eden?

2. Are Adam and Eve created in the Garden of Eden?

3.  What is the one job Adam is given in the Garden?

4. What is the stated penalty for eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil?
 
5. During the Creation process, God observes many things to be good.  What does God observe to be “not good”?
 
6. God creates Eve as a “fitting helper” for Adam.  However, she was but the second attempt to provide a “fitting helper.”  What/who was the first attempt?
 
7. “Eve” is not the original name that Adam gives to the first woman.  What does he first name her?
 
8. After disobeying God by eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam tells the first lie by a human.  What is the lie?
 
9. After Adam and Eve eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, God drives them out of the Garden of Eden.  Although this appears to be a punishment, God explains that it is done to prevent them from doing something else.  What act is the expulsion aimed at preventing?

ANSWERS

1. The Tree of Life, The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Only two specific trees are mentioned as being in the Garden of Eden: The Tree of Life -- which, according to the narrative, is in the middle -- and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  However, later in the story, Eve says the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is in the middle.
Genesis 2:9; 3:3 

2. Adam is not; Eve is
After creating Adam in an undisclosed place, God creates the Garden of Eden.  God then “took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden.”  Eve, on the other hand, is created in the Garden of Eden.
Genesis 2:15; 2:22 

3. Cultivate and tend the Garden
God transported Adam to the Garden “to cultivate it and tend it.”
Genesis 2:15 

4. Death
God says to Adam: “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Genesis 2:16-17 

5. That Adam is alone
After creating Adam, God observes that “it is not good that the man should be alone.”
Genesis 2:18 

6. The land animals and birds
God decides to create a “fitting helper” [ כנגדו -- k’neg-do] for Adam, so He creates land animals and birds, and brings them to Adam.  However, because “there was not found a fitting helper for him,” God created Eve.  The Hebrew word for “fitting helper” in this these verses is not repeated again in the Bible.
Genesis 2:18-20


Different methods of creating:  While God “creates” [ ברא -- bara ] the physical world, he “makes” [ צר' -- yee-tser ] land animals from the ground, “forms” [צר'' -- yee-y’tser ] Adam from dust, and “builds” [ בן' -- yee-ven ] Eve from a rib. Interestingly, each of the last three "creating" words begin with the same Hebrew letter, yod.

7.  “Woman” (“Eesha” in Hebrew)
When Adam first meets Eve, he announces that he will call her “Woman” (אשה -- Eesha), “because she was taken out of Man.”
Genesis  2:23

Adam’s and Eve’s names:  The Hebrew name for “Adam” [ אדם -- Adam ] is identical to the word for “man” [ אדם -- adam ] -- and both are derived from the word for “soil” [ אדמה -- adama ].  The words for “blood” [ דם -- dam ] and “red” [ אדם -- adom ] are also related.  He is first referred to as “Adam” instead of “the man” immediately preceding the creation of Eve. 

When Eve is first brought to him, Adam names her “Woman” [ אשה – Eesha ], and refers to himself as “Man” -- however, instead of using the Hebrew word for “man” that has referred to him up to this point [ אדם -- adam ], he uses the Hebrew word א'ש (eesh).  Although these two new words for “Man” and “Woman” look and sound similar in Hebrew (eesh and eesha), they are derived from different roots.  Adam later names the woman “Eve” [ חוה -- Chava ], “because she was the mother of all living.”


8. That he hides from God because he is naked
After disobeying God by eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam hides from God when he hears His approach.  Adam tells God:  “I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself.”  However, he had already covered his nakedness with leaves, so that was not his reason for hiding.
Genesis 3:10

9. Eating from the Tree of Life and becoming immortal
After Adam and Eve eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, God explains that they must be expelled because “'the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the Tree of life, and eat, and live forever.'  Therefore, the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden….”
Genesis 3:22-23