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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the traits that come to the fore?
(a) Benign and resilient.
(b) Ferocious, yet lacking in power.
(c) Supreme power but peaceful.
(d) Fearsome and powerful.

2. With what is God satisfied regarding various nations?
(a) Ignoring them.
(b) Assimilating them into the Israelite culture.
(c) With manipulating nations like chess pieces.
(d) Destroying them.

3. What is the purpose of the second interlude, "Does God Fail?"
(a) It interviews various religious authorities on their opinions on whether God has failed them.
(b) 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.
(c) It gives proof of God's successes.
(d) It criticises God for all his failures.

4. What did God stop twice from doing?
(a) Creating a plague.
(b) Arguing with Abraham.
(c) Destroying Israel and starting over with Moses.
(d) Killing David.

5. How is God the loser in the Book of Job?
(a) He is the devil's gaming partner.
(b) He hurts a sinless creature.
(c) He is uncaring.
(d) He has done wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the time Exodus begins, what has happened to Abraham's descendants?

2. What premise do Job's friends take?

3. Which statement is true based on the traditional interpretation of the Book of Job?

4. What does God become when Pharaoh legislates that all Israelite boys be killed at birth?

5. What have skeptics found in the Book of Job?

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