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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does God make the world?
(a) He wants friends.
(b) He wants family.
(c) He wants someone to love.
(d) He wants humankind because he wants an image of himself.

2. Why are the virgin daughters of one Israelite town that does not answer the call to massacre the Benjaminites allowed to be raped by the survivors?
(a) To get revenge on the Benjaminites.
(b) To punish them for disobeying.
(c) They want to show their power.
(d) In order to preserve the tribe's existence among the twelve.

3. What does God do in Is. 40:2?
(a) He almost admits that his punishment went too far.
(b) He feels regret.
(c) He reaches the conclusion that he made an appropriate decision regarding the Israelites.
(d) He begins to love his creation.

4. What is the Tanakh's one God's two strikingly distinct personalities?
(a) Jacob and Joseph.
(b) Elohim and Yahweh.
(c) Elijah and Matthew.
(d) Abram and Isaac.

5. What happens to God's plan of establishing a nation peacefully obedient to the detailed moral code he promulgated?
(a) It fails.
(b) It succeeds.
(c) It is not as successful as God had planned.
(d) It succeeds somewhat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the worst case of brutality in a brutal era take place?

2. How is God allowing himself to be transformed in Isaiah?

3. Although his story, previously reserved to Jewish and Christian believers, is the bedrock of what civilization?

4. How many solutions are there to the "problem of evil?"

5. What does God give to himself as an out from the broken covenant?

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