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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. God takes notice of problems and acts, but does not reveal this until Isaiah 39.
(a) Fear.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Love.
(d) Gratitude.

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

3. What does God vow to Israel?
(a) To make it up to Israel.
(b) To seek revenge.
(c) To save them.
(d) To have them destroyed.

4. From what is the translation of Ecclesiastes drawn?
(a) The Arabic word siasta, meaning "desert."
(b) The Greek word qohelt, meaning "assemblyman" or "assembler."
(c) The Hebrew word Ecclia, meaning "Cohesion."
(d) The Italian word cliesteria, meaning "cloister."

5. How are the Jews saved?
(a) God sends a flood to kill the enemy.
(b) God comes down from heaven in all his glory and wreaks havok upon the enemy.
(c) They are given a one-day immunity to wreak vengeance on their enemies and claim 75,000 lives.
(d) Ruth gathers up her people and leads them in a second mass exodus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What part of God is impulsive?

3. How is God allowing himself to be transformed in Isaiah?

4. Where is the Bible's first apocalypse recorded?

5. Why might monotheism have spread 500 years before Christianity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does it say in Isaiah about God's opinion of punishment?

2. Prior to Second Isaiah does God feel joy? Explain.

3. To what type of knowledge does the knowledge described in Isaiah refer?

4. What is the purpose of Gabriel and Michael?

5. How do God's people preserve him?

6. How did Song of Songs, which is a secular cycle of poems about young lovers, enter the Hebrew canon?

7. Why does God need the prophets?

8. What proof is there that Job silences God?

9. What happen after Ezra reads the "scroll of the Teaching of Moses?"

10. What is the gist of Proverbs?

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