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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Psalm 2 do nothing short but envision?
(a) A war zone.
(b) A peaceful world.
(c) A world empire led by God's anointed king/messiah.
(d) An apocalypse.

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

3. How many solutions are there to the "problem of evil?"
(a) Two.
(b) Ten.
(c) Seven.
(d) Four.

4. God reduces Job to silence, but what does Job do to God thereafter?
(a) He humiliates him.
(b) He harrasses him.
(c) He embarrasses him.
(d) Silences him.

5. To what literary character does the author compare God?
(a) Juliette.
(b) Jo March.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Don Quixote.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God refer to himself as female?

2. What does Nathan's oracle suggest as the reason God adopts Solomon rather than David?

3. What is the suggestion for why God did not dispense with Job rather than argue with him?

4. What Jewish and Christian texts cover the same material?

5. What does David do before the ark?

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