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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many wives did King Solomon have?
2. Who were Salome's children?
3. How many times had the Samaritan woman been married?
4. Who was the mother of King Joash of Judah?
5. How long did the woman with the spirit of infirmity have her condition before Jesus healed her?
Short Essay Questions
1. From what affliction did Christ heal Mary Magdalene, and what other possible explanation does Edith Deen say commentators have given for this affliction?
2. What miracle did Elisha perform with a poor widow's oil?
3. What ailment did the Syro-Phoenician woman's daughter have, and why did Christ initially rebuff her request to heal her daughter?
4. Who was Lydia, and what was her role in the early church?
5. How did Christ's encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well illustrate the universality of God's love?
6. What role did Mary, the mother of James and Joses, have in Christ's life and ministry?
7. Who was Ahinoam?
8. What did Mary Magdalene encounter at Christ's tomb?
9. How did Naomi help her widowed daughter-in-law get a new husband?
10. What illness did Simon Peter's mother-in-law develop, and how did Jesus heal her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the qualities of a virtuous woman listed in the book of Proverbs and discussed by Edith Deen in her book All the Women of the Bible. Give two examples of women in the Bible who exemplified these virtues and two examples of women in the Bible who did not exemplify these virtues.
Essay Topic 2
Pick any three of the unnamed women or unnamed groups of women in the Bible and discuss their importance, despite their anonymity. What did their unnamed status say about the role of women in Middle Eastern society during Bible times? How might the stories of these women differ if their societies had been matriarchal rather than patriarchal societies?
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast the Marys from the New Testament: Mary the mother of Christ, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of John Mark, and Mary the sister of Martha. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
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