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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a mistake God will not repeat?
(a) Anger towards his people.
(b) Arguing with Job.
(c) Creating humankind.
(d) Prophecy.

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

4. Why does Haman want the Jews annihilated?
(a) He fears the Jews.
(b) He does not like the king's wife.
(c) Mordecai, a Jew, offends him.
(d) He has an obsession with murder.

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

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

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

8. To what does the author compare a man who has thrown out his whoring wife, then, after she is gone, realizes he loves her no matter the mistakes she has made?
(a) Esther's climb to royalty.
(b) The life of Ruth.
(c) The prostitute that Jesus saves.
(d) The relationship between God and Israel.

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

10. Job is the climax of the Tanakh. What do the books that follow do?
(a) They reiterate the past books.
(b) They are sad and dreary.
(c) They are full of adventures.
(d) Mark time and lull.

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

12. How are the Jews saved?
(a) God comes down from heaven in all his glory and wreaks havok upon the enemy.
(b) God sends a flood to kill the enemy.
(c) Ruth gathers up her people and leads them in a second mass exodus.
(d) They are given a one-day immunity to wreak vengeance on their enemies and claim 75,000 lives.

13. How is Mordecai's reaction to the plot of Haman different from the reactions by past Jews in similar situations?
(a) He performs mourning rituals, but does not pray to God for his life.
(b) He begs for guidance.
(c) He repents for his sins.
(d) He prays to God for help.

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

15. Whose laws are codified and entrusted to human custody?
(a) Sab.
(b) Yah.
(c) Eloh.
(d) Mot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Israel a big loser?

2. God reduces Job to silence, but what does Job do to God thereafter?

3. How does God appear to Job?

4. What do the six books from Song of Songs to Daniel share?

5. What are the earlier Hebrews careful not to do, although their neighbors would have done this?

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