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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Eve's husband?

2. What task did Abraham give Eliezer on behalf of his son, Isaac?

3. How many daughters did Zelophad have?

4. How many words in the New Testament discuss Lot's wife?

5. What other painters did the story of Lot's wife inspire in addition to the painter who created "Flight of Lot"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did motherhood become a painful experience for Eve and her female descendants?

2. How has Mary, the mother of Christ, been honored and revered throughout the ages?

3. How did Eliezer select Rebekah to be Isaac's wife?

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

5. Over what did Miriam disagree with her brother Moses and how did God punish her over this discord?

6. What objects did Rachel steal from her father's house when she left with Jacob, and what did her taking of these objects indicate?

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

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

9. Who was the only woman to rule over Judah, and how did she attain her throne?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the depiction of fallen women in the Bible using Rahab, Gomer, and the Samaritan woman at the well as examples. In what ways were these fallen women metaphors for Israel or for the church? Is there a difference in male attitudes toward fallen women in the Old and New Testaments?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Esther, Ruth, and Rebekah. Cite examples from the text to support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the qualities of a virtuous woman listed in the book of Proverbs and discussed by Edith Deen in her book All the Women of the Bible. Give two examples of women in the Bible who exemplified these virtues and two examples of women in the Bible who did not exemplify these virtues.

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