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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 marriage.
(b) The evil of men.
(c) The difficulties of life.
(d) The unfairness of God.

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

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

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

5. What do the six books from Song of Songs to Daniel share?
(a) The reaction of various types of reporters.
(b) The same narrator.
(c) The same theme.
(d) The criticism of God.

6. How does God refer to himself as female?
(a) God refers to himself as a goddess.
(b) God is Israel's sister.
(c) God is the wife of Israel's youth.
(d) God is the mother of all creation.

7. What part of God is impulsive?
(a) Yah.
(b) John.
(c) Mot.
(d) El.

8. Even the goodness he sees in his own work did not bring God this.
(a) Disappointment.
(b) Disapproval.
(c) Joy.
(d) Anger.

9. Who is a Jewish orphan who later marries Ahasuerus, the king of Persia?
(a) Mary.
(b) Esther.
(c) Bathsheba.
(d) Ruth.

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

11. This Book is about love and marriage.
(a) Numbers.
(b) Ecceliastes.
(c) Esther.
(d) Ruth.

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

13. How is his presence different in Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, and Psalms?
(a) God becomes a present absence, quite gone and missed.
(b) He reappears.
(c) He leads his flock to heaven.
(d) He reappears but is silent.

14. Who tempts Yah to impose great suffering on Job?
(a) Mot.
(b) Sab.
(c) Eloh.
(d) Sherah.

15. How does God appear to Job?
(a) As a burning bush.
(b) As a volcano.
(c) As a lightening bolt.
(d) As a whirlwind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does God do in Is. 40:2?

2. Why does Elizabethan society read the Bible more than it did the Greeks' writing?

3. What tribe is the only one to survive the exile as an intact entity?

4. For what does the polytheistic retelling make up?

5. For what do the last three Minor Prophets set the stage?

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