2. Why might monotheism have spread 500 years before Christianity?
(a) If Ezra had not demanded the remnant of the Jews to divorce their non-Jewish wives and expel their children.
(b) If the Jews had not died out.
(c) If the Jews had kept their faith in God.
(d) If Ezra had insisted the Jews marry into other cultures.

3. Of what is "the earth shall be full of knowledge of the Lord/as the waters cover the sea" a description?
(a) Heaven on earth.
(b) God's kingom in Genesis 1.
(c) The peaceable kingdom in Isaiah 11.
(d) The ocean at rest.

4. What else does the God of Heaven want to be?
(a) The God of Earth.
(b) The Wife of Israel.
(c) The Father of man.
(d) The God of the Sea.

5. Who has God come to prefer?
(a) The righteous.
(b) The pious commoner.
(c) The wealthy.
(d) The ungrateful.

6. How is Mordecai's reaction to the plot of Haman different from the reactions by past Jews in similar situations?
(a) He prays to God for help.
(b) He performs mourning rituals, but does not pray to God for his life.
(c) He repents for his sins.
(d) He begs for guidance.

7. How is Job like Abraham?
(a) He goes along with what he must and withholds everything he can.
(b) He does all that God asks.
(c) He loves God.
(d) His children inherit the earth.

8. What are the earlier Hebrews careful not to do, although their neighbors would have done this?
(a) Sexualize God.
(b) Emotionalize God.
(c) Fear God.
(d) Anger God.

9. What book of the Bible has long been a favorite in literary circles?
(a) Matthew.
(b) Mark.
(c) John.
(d) Job.

10. How can God's "steadfast love" be translated?
(a) Strong love.
(b) Fatherly love.
(c) A fierce mutual loyalty between liege and vassal.
(d) Steady love.

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

12. What tribe is the only one to survive the exile as an intact entity?
(a) The tribe of Benjamin.
(b) The tribe of Joseph.
(c) The tribe of Levi.
(d) The tribe of Judah.

13. Where is the Bible's first apocalypse recorded?
(a) Daniel 17-25.
(b) Is. 24: 17-23.
(c) Song of Songs 14.
(d) Exodus 2-16.

14. How are the two dream interpreters, Daniel and Joseph, different?
(a) Daniel exalts God for the gift, while Joseph retaliates against him.
(b) Daniel stays silent, while Joseph exalts God for the gift.
(c) Daniel exalts God for the gift, and Joseph stays silent.
(d) Daniel retaliates against God for the horrible gift, while Joseph exalts him.

15. Why is God's two-part speech to Job significant?
(a) These are the last words he speaks in the Tanakh.
(b) God submits to Job.
(c) He and Job come to an agreement at the end.
(d) God apologizes for his actions.