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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What messages frequently contradict one another?
(a) The Sermon on the Mount messages.
(b) The Flood messages.
(c) The Creation messages.
(d) The prophetic messages.

2. What happens to most of the men in the Book of Ruth?
(a) They are weak.
(b) They are in power.
(c) They die.
(d) They abuse women.

3. What is NOT God's motive for creating humankind, making a covenant with Abraham, delivering Israel from Egypt, or driving the Canaanites from the land before them?
(a) Love.
(b) Peace.
(c) Anger.
(d) Fear.

4. What does God admit in Is. 51:22-23?
(a) He suggests that he did not control events sufficiently to prevent unmerited suffering.
(b) He almost admits that his punishment went too far.
(c) He feels he did the right thing regarding the Israelites and Canaanites.
(d) He is in control of all situations, because he is the almighty God.

5. What has the Tanakh always been?
(a) The story of God's struggle to be polytheistic.
(b) The change of God from monotheism to polytheism.
(c) A guide to the godly life.
(d) The story of God's inner conflict being resolved into monotheism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Even the goodness he sees in his own work did not bring God this.

2. How will prophecy be examined in this book?

3. Why does the author use the Jewish canon, or Tanakh, for study?

4. How does God seem to be taking up ethical matters?

5. What is the purpose of the second interlude, "Does God Fail?"

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