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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can God's "steadfast love" be translated?
(a) A fierce mutual loyalty between liege and vassal.
(b) Fatherly love.
(c) Steady love.
(d) Strong love.

2. Why does Haman want the Jews annihilated?
(a) He has an obsession with murder.
(b) Mordecai, a Jew, offends him.
(c) He does not like the king's wife.
(d) He fears the Jews.

3. For what does the polytheistic retelling make up?
(a) The lack of depth found in God's character.
(b) The negativity towards monotheism.
(c) The Tanakh's lack of clarity and sense of relative inevitability.
(d) The belief that God is one-sided and superficial.

4. Why does Elizabethan society read the Bible more than it did the Greeks' writing?
(a) They are drawn to the way the Bible is written.
(b) It descends from a medieval society for whom the Bible is its only literature.
(c) It is in English, so they can better understand it than other literature.
(d) Queen Elizabeth forbids all literature other than the Bible.

5. Why does the Tanakh begin with its climax and descend from there?
(a) This is the traditional middle eastern form of story telling.
(b) God is excited about his creation and grows more and more disinterested as time goes by.
(c) The Jews want to capture the attention of the reader, so by placing the climax at the beginning, it attracts and keeps the reader's attention.
(d) Confidence at the time of creation seems to blind God to the consequences of his actions, and he grows quieter the better he comes to understand the course of history.

6. What does Job choose over God?
(a) Justice.
(b) Money.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Love.

7. Who is a Jewish orphan who later marries Ahasuerus, the king of Persia?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Bathsheba.
(c) Esther.
(d) Mary.

8. Who is Sherah?
(a) Abraham's wife.
(b) The messiah.
(c) God's companion.
(d) A goddess of creativity, wisdom, and skill.

9. What is an apocalypse?
(a) A cryptic revelation of imminent destruction.
(b) A dance performed in ancient Egypt.
(c) A tropical fruit.
(d) A prayer of mourning.

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

11. What book of the Bible has long been a favorite in literary circles?
(a) Job.
(b) John.
(c) Matthew.
(d) Mark.

12. What have skeptics found in the Book of Job?
(a) Reason for repudiating the Judeo-Christian tradition.
(b) Reason to understand the Judeo-Christian tradition.
(c) Reason to have faith in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
(d) Reason fear the Judeo-Christian tradition.

13. What tribe is the only one to survive the exile as an intact entity?
(a) The tribe of Joseph.
(b) The tribe of Levi.
(c) The tribe of Benjamin.
(d) The tribe of Judah.

14. Is God just in the Book of Job?
(a) Yes, he is always a just God.
(b) No, he does not love Job enough to be just.
(c) No, he never claims to be just, only to be almighty.
(d) Yes, Job made a mistake and deserves punishment.

15. Where do Eloh and Yah send ferocious Sab?
(a) To rescue the Israelites from the Egyptians.
(b) To the burning bush to speak with Moses.
(c) To the burning pits of hell.
(d) To kill the Israelites.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. God takes notice of problems and acts, but does not reveal this until Isaiah 39.

3. This Book is a cycle of poems about young lovers attributed to King Solomon.

4. How will prophecy be examined in this book?

5. What effect does God's decision to take the bet have on Job?

(see the answer keys)

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