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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. What are the earlier Hebrews careful not to do, although their neighbors would have done this?
(a) Sexualize God.
(b) Emotionalize God.
(c) Anger God.
(d) Fear God.

2. What book of the Bible has long been a favorite in literary circles?
(a) Mark.
(b) John.
(c) Matthew.
(d) Job.

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

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

5. Who are the three major prophets?
(a) Edward, Ishmael, Jesse.
(b) John, Jesus, Jacob.
(c) Isaac, Joseph, Mark.
(d) Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Mordecai's reaction to the plot of Haman different from the reactions by past Jews in similar situations?

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

3. After the Babylonians are defeated by the Persians, what do the Judeans begin to be called?

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

5. What essence of God is the reptilian goddess?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Is the Tanakh a tragedy?

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

5. Why is it confusing that the prophets contradict one another?

6. Why are Job's speeches NOT subversive?

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

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

9. How is the love between the man and wife before and after the reconciliation?

10. Why does God need the prophets?

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