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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does God indicate his sense of mercy might outweigh his sense of justice?
(a) He gives the Israelites multiple chances.
(b) By allowing the generation after the destruction to have an opportunity to return to him and be restored.
(c) He saves other nations, even though they are not Israelites.
(d) He saves the Israelites.

2. Why do the Christians move the prophets from the middle to the end?
(a) It is the true order.
(b) To make it less confusing for the reader.
(c) For dramatic effect.
(d) God asks to have the order changed.

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

4. Why do the Jew leave the text where it is?
(a) It is the true order and should not be changed.
(b) God asks to have the order kept in its original form.
(c) They adopt the codex as a way of preserving the contents of their ancient scrolls.
(d) For dramatic effect.

5. How is his presence different in Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, and Psalms?
(a) He leads his flock to heaven.
(b) He reappears.
(c) He reappears but is silent.
(d) God becomes a present absence, quite gone and missed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an apocalypse?

2. How does God create a male?

3. God takes notice of problems and acts, but does not reveal this until Isaiah 39.

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

5. Most often, whose words do the prophets speak?

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