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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 is inherently unstable in God?
(a) His love for humankind.
(b) God's wrath.
(c) Fusion of personalities.
(d) His creation.

2. What is there a sense of in Psalms?
(a) A growing sense that Israel is bravely and patiently waiting for God to resume his leading role.
(b) Remorse.
(c) Distrust and sadness among the Israelites.
(d) Israel is tired of their God and wanting a savior.

3. 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 a wrathful, vengeful, and remorseful God.
(d) To be emotionally transformed from his wrathful, vengeful, remorseful past.

4. How will prophecy be examined in this book?
(a) As an explanation of the origins of God.
(b) As the self-characterization of God in a non-narrative form.
(c) As the historical evidence of God in narrative form.
(d) As the aspects of God in narrative form.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God refer to himself as female?

2. God takes notice of problems and acts, but does not reveal this until Isaiah 39.

3. From what is the translation of Ecclesiastes drawn?

4. What does Job choose over God?

5. What does God do in Is. 40:2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does it say in Isaiah about God's opinion of punishment?

2. With whom does Haggai deal?

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

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. What is the gist of Proverbs?

7. When does God first feel pain?

8. Why is the Book of Job a favorite in literary circles and with skeptics?

9. What are the four things Job does, according to the common interpretation of the Book of Job?

10. What has happened to the practice of circumcision by the time Psalms is written?

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