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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of which character's spectacularly successful career does he deliver his final speech in Shechem, and Israel responds at a pitch of enthusiasm never again reached?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Isaiah.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Joseph.

2. What is not found in prophecy?
(a) Fear and wonder.
(b) Sanity and calmness.
(c) False prophecy.
(d) Mistakes.

3. What do the last three Minor Prophets give God?
(a) A promise to spread his word.
(b) A gift.
(c) A last chance to express himself directly.
(d) An oath to be loyal.

4. How do critics and scholars differ?
(a) How to approach literary characters.
(b) How they study poetry.
(c) Their beliefs about what is literature.
(d) What colleges they attend.

5. Who is the protagonist in the Tanakh?
(a) Noah.
(b) Abraham.
(c) God.
(d) Job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author believe God's story deserves?

2. To what does the author compare a man who has thrown out his whoring wife, then, after she is gone, realizes he loves her no matter the mistakes she has made?

3. The creation story resembles what creation myths?

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

5. What is the plot of the Tanakh?

(see the answer key)

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