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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. For what does the polytheistic retelling make up?
(a) The negativity towards monotheism.
(b) The Tanakh's lack of clarity and sense of relative inevitability.
(c) The belief that God is one-sided and superficial.
(d) The lack of depth found in God's character.

2. What do the six books from Song of Songs to Daniel share?
(a) The reaction of various types of reporters.
(b) The same narrator.
(c) The criticism of God.
(d) The same theme.

3. What is another word for solitude?
(a) Sad.
(b) Peace.
(c) Omnipresence.
(d) Lonely.

4. What premise do Job's friends take?
(a) That God is spiteful.
(b) That God is just.
(c) That God is unjust.
(d) That God is loving.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the Jews saved?

2. Who tempts Yah to impose great suffering on Job?

3. How does God appear to Job?

4. What celebration marks this event?

5. What have skeptics found in the Book of Job?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the purpose of Gabriel and Michael?

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

6. Why does God need the prophets?

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

8. What happen after Ezra reads the "scroll of the Teaching of Moses?"

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

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

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