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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does God vow to Israel?
(a) To make it up to Israel.
(b) To save them.
(c) To have them destroyed.
(d) To seek revenge.

2. How is God allowing himself to be transformed in Isaiah?
(a) To a more wrath-filled God.
(b) To an unhappy and unloved God.
(c) To be emotionally transformed from his wrathful, vengeful, remorseful past.
(d) To a wrathful, vengeful, and remorseful God.

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

4. What tribe is the only one to survive the exile as an intact entity?
(a) The tribe of Judah.
(b) The tribe of Levi.
(c) The tribe of Joseph.
(d) The tribe of Benjamin.

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

6. What premise do Job's friends take?
(a) That God is loving.
(b) That God is unjust.
(c) That God is spiteful.
(d) That God is just.

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

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

9. Since Job does not repent for offenses he did not commit, who must repent?
(a) Job will still repent because that is God's wish.
(b) Satan.
(c) His friends.
(d) God.

10. What part of God's character is calm and benign?
(a) Yah.
(b) Mot.
(c) Sab.
(d) Eloh.

11. In what Book is God never mentioned, and the Jews' religion is not even a secondary feature of their identity?
(a) Exodus.
(b) Esther.
(c) Numbers.
(d) 2 Kings.

12. In the Book of Job, from whom does God take a bet?
(a) Elohim.
(b) Job.
(c) Satan.
(d) Yahweh.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of presence is God in Isaiah?

2. What messages frequently contradict one another?

3. Whose laws are codified and entrusted to human custody?

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

5. What do the last three Minor Prophets give God?

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