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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. Why did Dinah's brothers object to her husband?
(a) He was a liar.
(b) He was uncircumcised and he had dishonored Dinah.
(c) He had no money.
(d) He was a thief.

2. When Potiphar's wife tried to tempt the family's Hebrew overseer to have a romance with her, what did she catch in her hand as he fled her?
(a) His headband.
(b) His garment.
(c) A lock of his hair.
(d) His sandal.

3. What was Dinah's relationship to Leah and Jacob?
(a) She was their queen.
(b) She was their daughter.
(c) She was their daughter-in-law.
(d) She was their cousin.

4. When Jesus performed his miracle of turning water into wine at a wedding feast, who told him that the feast had run out of wine?
(a) His father, Joseph.
(b) His mother, Mary.
(c) The bride.
(d) The bridegroom.

5. What other painters did the story of Lot's wife inspire in addition to the painter who created "Flight of Lot"?
(a) Andy Warhol and Georgia O'Keefe.
(b) Salvadore Dali and Pablo Picasso.
(c) Gozzoli and Lucas Cranach.
(d) Frida Kalow and Georgia O'Keefe.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what part of her husband's body did God create Eve?

2. What was the name of Deborah's husband?

3. Whose son did the prophet Elisha raise from the dead?

4. To what famous child did Elisabeth give birth?

5. When Jesus was twelve, where did Mary find him after thinking he was lost?

Short Essay Questions

1. From what part of Adam's body was Eve made, and what does her creation from this part symbolize about the role of the woman in male/female relationships?

2. Who was Rahab, and how did she help Israel when they came to invade her city?

3. Who was Queen Vashti and how did she anger her husband and lose her throne?

4. What two roles did Deborah have that were unusual for women of her era?

5. What was God's promise to Sarah and why did its fulfillment seem impossible?

6. What lie did Potiphar's wife tell about Joseph?

7. Over what legal issue did the five daughters of Zelophad appear before Moses and the council, and what important legal precedent did their case set for women in the tribe of Israel?

8. How did children become an issue of conflict between Rachel and Leah?

9. What role did Mary have in her son's first miracle?

10. How did Jochebed save her infant son's life after Pharoah decreed that all Hebrew male babies should be killed?

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