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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what have believers grown accustomed?
(a) God's undying love and devotion to humankind.
(b) God's Son, the Messiah.
(c) God 's inner anxiety in the way they are drawn to complex human beings more so than the boring "centered" ones.
(d) God's wrath towards those that disobey him.

2. Why is God's two-part speech to Job significant?
(a) He and Job come to an agreement at the end.
(b) God apologizes for his actions.
(c) God submits to Job.
(d) These are the last words he speaks in the Tanakh.

3. At what might critics scoff?
(a) The idea of understanding humans in spiritual terms.
(b) The idea of studying the Bible.
(c) The idea of understanding God in human terms.
(d) The idea of studying God in all his glory.

4. What are the ways David is indicted under Deuteronomic Law?
(a) Hate, shame, fear, and murder.
(b) Love, fear of God, kindness, mildness, and care.
(c) Prowess, theft, and threatening and controlling others.
(d) Cowardice, adultery, blasphemy, treachery, and gluttony.

5. How is David indicted under Deuteronomic Law?
(a) He tricks Bathseba into marrying her husband.
(b) He defies God's law.
(c) His behavior towards Bathseba, whom he seduces and her murdered husband, whom he arranged to have killed.
(d) He kills Goliath and gloats about his win.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do these contradictions reveal?

2. What story is told twice and is structurally the same, yet different in the details and mood?

3. Believers adore God as the origin of what?

4. How is his presence different in Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, and Psalms?

5. What book of the Bible has long been a favorite in literary circles?

(see the answer key)

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