2. What effect does God's decision to take the bet have on Job?
(a) Job loses everyone dear to him.
(b) Job loses his wife.
(c) Job becomes wealthy.
(d) Job dies.

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

4. What Book does he move to complete absence?
(a) Book of Proverbs.
(b) Book of John.
(c) Book of Job.
(d) Book of Esther.

5. What type of presence is God in Isaiah?
(a) An absent presence.
(b) A presence that is somewhat absent.
(c) A solid presence.
(d) A true presence.

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

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

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

9. What does prophecy combine?
(a) Meaning, movement, and morals.
(b) Preaching, politics, and poetry.
(c) Reading, religion, and reason.
(d) Teaching, tutoring, and tilling.

10. What follows the apocalypse?
(a) A crowd of enthusiasts.
(b) A casket.
(c) A feast.
(d) A definitive divine intervention at the end of time.

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

12. How is God the loser in the Book of Job?
(a) He has done wrong.
(b) He hurts a sinless creature.
(c) He is the devil's gaming partner.
(d) He is uncaring.

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

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

15. 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."