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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Book of Ruth not gloss over?
(a) The difficulties of life.
(b) The unfairness of God.
(c) The evil of men.
(d) The difficulties of marriage.

2. Who is Sherah?
(a) Abraham's wife.
(b) A goddess of creativity, wisdom, and skill.
(c) The messiah.
(d) God's companion.

3. What is the suggestion for why God did not dispense with Job rather than argue with him?
(a) He felt regret for his actions.
(b) He knows Job is in the right.
(c) He loves Job.
(d) He does not kill his own people.

4. What have skeptics found in the Book of Job?
(a) Reason for repudiating the Judeo-Christian tradition.
(b) Reason fear the Judeo-Christian tradition.
(c) Reason to understand the Judeo-Christian tradition.
(d) Reason to have faith in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

5. 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.

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

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

8. Why is Israel a big loser?
(a) They no longer have a God.
(b) They never are in power.
(c) They push God away.
(d) They do not want God to remain silent.

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

10. How is God allowing himself to be transformed in Isaiah?
(a) To be emotionally transformed from his wrathful, vengeful, remorseful past.
(b) To a wrathful, vengeful, and remorseful God.
(c) To an unhappy and unloved God.
(d) To a more wrath-filled God.

11. Who are the three major prophets?
(a) Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel.
(b) Isaac, Joseph, Mark.
(c) Edward, Ishmael, Jesse.
(d) John, Jesus, Jacob.

12. What is inherently unstable in God?
(a) God's wrath.
(b) His creation.
(c) Fusion of personalities.
(d) His love for humankind.

13. What is there a sense of in Psalms?
(a) Israel is tired of their God and wanting a savior.
(b) Remorse.
(c) Distrust and sadness among the Israelites.
(d) A growing sense that Israel is bravely and patiently waiting for God to resume his leading role.

14. In Isaiah God is holy because of what, rather than power?
(a) He is all-knowing.
(b) He is other than man and unknowable.
(c) He is loving.
(d) He has holy water.

15. What is an apocalypse?
(a) A cryptic revelation of imminent destruction.
(b) A tropical fruit.
(c) A dance performed in ancient Egypt.
(d) A prayer of mourning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to most of the men in the Book of Ruth?

2. How does God refer to himself as female?

3. For what does the polytheistic retelling make up?

4. How is his presence different in Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, and Psalms?

5. Why does the Tanakh begin with its climax and descend from there?

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