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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is his presence different in Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, and Psalms?
(a) He reappears but is silent.
(b) He leads his flock to heaven.
(c) He reappears.
(d) God becomes a present absence, quite gone and missed.

2. What does Psalm 2 do nothing short but envision?
(a) A peaceful world.
(b) A war zone.
(c) A world empire led by God's anointed king/messiah.
(d) An apocalypse.

3. What messages frequently contradict one another?
(a) The Creation messages.
(b) The Sermon on the Mount messages.
(c) The Flood messages.
(d) The prophetic messages.

4. Of what is "the earth shall be full of knowledge of the Lord/as the waters cover the sea" a description?
(a) Heaven on earth.
(b) The ocean at rest.
(c) The peaceable kingdom in Isaiah 11.
(d) God's kingom in Genesis 1.

5. For what do the last three Minor Prophets set the stage?
(a) Change.
(b) War.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Peace.

6. What else does the God of Heaven want to be?
(a) The God of Earth.
(b) The God of the Sea.
(c) The Father of man.
(d) The Wife of Israel.

7. To what does the author compare a man who has thrown out his whoring wife, then, after she is gone, realizes he loves her no matter the mistakes she has made?
(a) Esther's climb to royalty.
(b) The prostitute that Jesus saves.
(c) The relationship between God and Israel.
(d) The life of Ruth.

8. Who has God come to prefer?
(a) The wealthy.
(b) The pious commoner.
(c) The ungrateful.
(d) The righteous.

9. Who are the three major prophets?
(a) Edward, Ishmael, Jesse.
(b) Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel.
(c) Isaac, Joseph, Mark.
(d) John, Jesus, Jacob.

10. What are the earlier Hebrews careful not to do, although their neighbors would have done this?
(a) Anger God.
(b) Sexualize God.
(c) Fear God.
(d) Emotionalize God.

11. What does God do in Is. 40:2?
(a) He almost admits that his punishment went too far.
(b) He begins to love his creation.
(c) He feels regret.
(d) He reaches the conclusion that he made an appropriate decision regarding the Israelites.

12. What is not found in prophecy?
(a) False prophecy.
(b) Fear and wonder.
(c) Mistakes.
(d) Sanity and calmness.

13. What does prophecy combine?
(a) Meaning, movement, and morals.
(b) Reading, religion, and reason.
(c) Preaching, politics, and poetry.
(d) Teaching, tutoring, and tilling.

14. What need not always be an element in either Jewish identity or Jewish self-defense?
(a) Adhering to the Ten Commandments.
(b) Belief in the creation story.
(c) Fidelity to the Jewish religion.
(d) The clothing requirements decreed by God.

15. How will prophecy be examined in this book?
(a) As the historical evidence of God in narrative form.
(b) As an explanation of the origins of God.
(c) As the self-characterization of God in a non-narrative form.
(d) As the aspects of God in narrative form.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is God the loser in the Book of Job?

2. Most often, whose words do the prophets speak?

3. How does God refer to himself as female?

4. Whose laws are codified and entrusted to human custody?

5. After the Babylonians are defeated by the Persians, what do the Judeans begin to be called?

(see the answer keys)

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