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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does God admit in Is. 51:22-23?
(a) He feels he did the right thing regarding the Israelites and Canaanites.
(b) He almost admits that his punishment went too far.
(c) He is in control of all situations, because he is the almighty God.
(d) He suggests that he did not control events sufficiently to prevent unmerited suffering.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What book of the Bible has long been a favorite in literary circles?

3. What celebration marks this event?

4. Who is Sherah?

5. Who does Daniel 8 introduce?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is cultic sacrifice a late development in the Judean culture?

2. How did Song of Songs, which is a secular cycle of poems about young lovers, enter the Hebrew canon?

3. When does God first feel pain?

4. Prior to Second Isaiah does God feel joy? Explain.

5. How does God begin when he creates the world and all that is on it?

6. How are God and Israel brought back together in the Book of Daniel?

7. What lesson did God's demand for Isaac's sacrifice teach? Give an example.

8. Why is the Tanakh closer in spirit to "Hamlet," rather than "Oedipus Rex?"

9. How do God's people preserve him?

10. Are the three Major Prophets' messages manic depressive and psychotic or sane and calm? Why?

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