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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What god is He compared to after his transformation?
(a) Mab.
(b) Buddha.
(c) Bathseba.
(d) Baal.

2. What is the purpose of the second interlude, "Does God Fail?"
(a) It criticises God for all his failures.
(b) It interviews various religious authorities on their opinions on whether God has failed them.
(c) It performs a status check on how god has been characterized in the first eleven primarily historical books of the Tanakh, before turning to the prophets and other literary forms.
(d) It gives proof of God's successes.

3. Why is God's two-part speech to Job significant?
(a) He and Job come to an agreement at the end.
(b) These are the last words he speaks in the Tanakh.
(c) God apologizes for his actions.
(d) God submits to Job.

4. Since Job does not repent for offenses he did not commit, who must repent?
(a) Satan.
(b) God.
(c) His friends.
(d) Job will still repent because that is God's wish.

5. How does God indicate his sense of mercy might outweigh his sense of justice?
(a) By allowing the generation after the destruction to have an opportunity to return to him and be restored.
(b) He saves other nations, even though they are not Israelites.
(c) He saves the Israelites.
(d) He gives the Israelites multiple chances.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is God satisfied regarding various nations?

2. What are the traits that come to the fore?

3. How is the Hebrew God different from those of Greek mythology?

4. How is God the loser in the Book of Job?

5. Why did the horrible destruction threatened in Deuteronomy 28 have to take place?

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