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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. What part of God is impulsive?
(a) El.
(b) John.
(c) Yah.
(d) Mot.

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

3. What is the suggestion for why God did not dispense with Job rather than argue with him?
(a) He loves Job.
(b) He does not kill his own people.
(c) He knows Job is in the right.
(d) He felt regret for his actions.

4. What do the six books from Song of Songs to Daniel share?
(a) The criticism of God.
(b) The reaction of various types of reporters.
(c) The same narrator.
(d) The same theme.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tempts Yah to impose great suffering on Job?

2. Why does Elizabethan society read the Bible more than it did the Greeks' writing?

3. Who are the three major prophets?

4. What is not found in prophecy?

5. What do these contradictions reveal?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Job's speeches NOT subversive?

2. Why is it confusing that the prophets contradict one another?

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

4. How is the love between the man and wife before and after the reconciliation?

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

6. How does God begin when he creates the world and all that is on it?

7. Why is the Book of Job a favorite in literary circles and with skeptics?

8. How does the Book of Ruth portray men?

9. What is the purpose of Gabriel and Michael?

10. How do God's people preserve him?

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