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

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

4. What does Job choose over God?
(a) Love.
(b) Money.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Justice.

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

6. 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) The life of Ruth.
(b) The prostitute that Jesus saves.
(c) Esther's climb to royalty.
(d) The relationship between God and Israel.

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

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

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

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

11. Why might monotheism have spread 500 years before Christianity?
(a) If the Jews had not died out.
(b) If Ezra had insisted the Jews marry into other cultures.
(c) If Ezra had not demanded the remnant of the Jews to divorce their non-Jewish wives and expel their children.
(d) If the Jews had kept their faith in God.

12. Why is God's two-part speech to Job significant?
(a) He and Job come to an agreement at the end.
(b) These are the last words he speaks in the Tanakh.
(c) God apologizes for his actions.
(d) God submits to Job.

13. For what do the last three Minor Prophets set the stage?
(a) War.
(b) Peace.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Change.

14. 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) Anger.
(b) Peace.
(c) Fear.
(d) Love.

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