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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the Tanakh begin with its climax and descend from there?
(a) The Jews want to capture the attention of the reader, so by placing the climax at the beginning, it attracts and keeps the reader's attention.
(b) God is excited about his creation and grows more and more disinterested as time goes by.
(c) Confidence at the time of creation seems to blind God to the consequences of his actions, and he grows quieter the better he comes to understand the course of history.
(d) This is the traditional middle eastern form of story telling.

2. Who has been appointed to protect the Jews in the coming war in heaven?
(a) Gabriel.
(b) Sab.
(c) Michael.
(d) Elisha.

3. Who does Daniel 8 introduce?
(a) The angel Gabriel.
(b) The devil Satan.
(c) The prophet Elisha.
(d) The angel Michael.

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

5. What is significant about the whirlwind speech?
(a) It is the last time God speaks in the Tanakh.
(b) It is his most angry speech.
(c) It is the first time he calls himself Father.
(d) It is the first time he apologizes for his punishments.

6. What is another word for solitude?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Peace.
(c) Omnipresence.
(d) Sad.

7. What does God do in Is. 40:2?
(a) He almost admits that his punishment went too far.
(b) He feels regret.
(c) He reaches the conclusion that he made an appropriate decision regarding the Israelites.
(d) He begins to love his creation.

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

9. What do these contradictions reveal?
(a) A confused God.
(b) A God in distress.
(c) Misinterpretations by translators.
(d) All that is required of believers.

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

11. What need not always be an element in either Jewish identity or Jewish self-defense?
(a) Belief in the creation story.
(b) Fidelity to the Jewish religion.
(c) Adhering to the Ten Commandments.
(d) The clothing requirements decreed by God.

12. 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) The peaceable kingdom in Isaiah 11.
(c) God's kingom in Genesis 1.
(d) The ocean at rest.

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

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

15. After the Babylonians are defeated by the Persians, what do the Judeans begin to be called?
(a) Judes.
(b) Jews.
(c) Israelites.
(d) Persians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of presence is God in Isaiah?

3. What follows the apocalypse?

4. What messages frequently contradict one another?

5. In Isaiah God is holy because of what, rather than power?

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