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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the last three Minor Prophets give God?
(a) A promise to spread his word.
(b) A last chance to express himself directly.
(c) A gift.
(d) An oath to be loyal.

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

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

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

5. What is NOT God's motive for creating humankind, making a covenant with Abraham, delivering Israel from Egypt, or driving the Canaanites from the land before them?
(a) Peace.
(b) Fear.
(c) Love.
(d) Anger.

6. What happens to most of the men in the Book of Ruth?
(a) They abuse women.
(b) They die.
(c) They are in power.
(d) They are weak.

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

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

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

10. Which statement is true based on the traditional interpretation of the Book of Job?
(a) Job knows God will not save him.
(b) Job is a sinner but is constantly in denial.
(c) Job understands why he must repent.
(d) Job consistently trusts that God will vindicate him.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God appear to Job?

2. How is Mordecai's reaction to the plot of Haman different from the reactions by past Jews in similar situations?

3. What is the suggestion for why God did not dispense with Job rather than argue with him?

4. What is not found in prophecy?

5. What is significant about the whirlwind speech?

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