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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does God give to himself as an out from the broken covenant?
(a) "Scary things."
(b) "Superficial things."
(c) "Special things."
(d) "Secret things."

3. How is Job like Abraham?
(a) He goes along with what he must and withholds everything he can.
(b) His children inherit the earth.
(c) He loves God.
(d) He does all that God asks.

4. What does God do when displeased by some human action or inaction?
(a) He reacts.
(b) He ignores them.
(c) He worries.
(d) He plots

5. In the Book of Job, from whom does God take a bet?
(a) Satan.
(b) Elohim.
(c) Job.
(d) Yahweh.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What must God do to maintain contact with the remnant that survives destruction?

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

4. Why is the God of Genesis frustrating?

5. What element remains dominant in God through the end of 2 Samuel?

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