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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. How are the Jews saved?
(a) They are given a one-day immunity to wreak vengeance on their enemies and claim 75,000 lives.
(b) Ruth gathers up her people and leads them in a second mass exodus.
(c) God comes down from heaven in all his glory and wreaks havok upon the enemy.
(d) God sends a flood to kill the enemy.

2. Who is a Jewish orphan who later marries Ahasuerus, the king of Persia?
(a) Mary.
(b) Esther.
(c) Bathsheba.
(d) Ruth.

3. Why does Elizabethan society read the Bible more than it did the Greeks' writing?
(a) They are drawn to the way the Bible is written.
(b) It descends from a medieval society for whom the Bible is its only literature.
(c) It is in English, so they can better understand it than other literature.
(d) Queen Elizabeth forbids all literature other than the Bible.

4. Who has been appointed to protect the Jews in the coming war in heaven?
(a) Gabriel.
(b) Elisha.
(c) Michael.
(d) Sab.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Book of Job, from whom does God take a bet?

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

3. The Book of Job is the Tanakh's most conscious confrontation with what side of God?

4. Why is Israel a big loser?

5. What effect does God's decision to take the bet have on Job?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does God need the prophets?

4. How is God's life saved after the events involving Job?

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

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

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

8. Why are Job's speeches NOT subversive?

9. How do God's people preserve him?

10. Is the Tanakh a tragedy?

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