2. This Book is a cycle of poems about young lovers attributed to King Solomon.
(a) Proverbs.
(b) Psalms.
(c) Song of Songs.
(d) Job.

3. Job is the climax of the Tanakh. What do the books that follow do?
(a) They are sad and dreary.
(b) They reiterate the past books.
(c) Mark time and lull.
(d) They are full of adventures.

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

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

6. What does God admit in Is. 51:22-23?
(a) He almost admits that his punishment went too far.
(b) He suggests that he did not control events sufficiently to prevent unmerited suffering.
(c) He feels he did the right thing regarding the Israelites and Canaanites.
(d) He is in control of all situations, because he is the almighty God.

7. What does Job choose over God?
(a) Money.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Justice.
(d) Love.

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

9. What part of God's character is calm and benign?
(a) Sab.
(b) Eloh.
(c) Yah.
(d) Mot.

10. Why does Elizabethan society read the Bible more than it did the Greeks' writing?
(a) They are drawn to the way the Bible is written.
(b) It is in English, so they can better understand it than other literature.
(c) It descends from a medieval society for whom the Bible is its only literature.
(d) Queen Elizabeth forbids all literature other than the Bible.

11. What essence of God is the reptilian goddess?
(a) Mot.
(b) Sab.
(c) Job.
(d) Yahweh.

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

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

14. From what is the translation of Ecclesiastes drawn?
(a) The Arabic word siasta, meaning "desert."
(b) The Hebrew word Ecclia, meaning "Cohesion."
(c) The Italian word cliesteria, meaning "cloister."
(d) The Greek word qohelt, meaning "assemblyman" or "assembler."

15. Most often, whose words do the prophets speak?
(a) Jesus'.
(b) God's.
(c) Mary's.
(d) Joseph's.