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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 need not always be an element in either Jewish identity or Jewish self-defense?
(a) Adhering to the Ten Commandments.
(b) Fidelity to the Jewish religion.
(c) The clothing requirements decreed by God.
(d) Belief in the creation story.

2. What is NOT God's motive for creating humankind, making a covenant with Abraham, delivering Israel from Egypt, or driving the Canaanites from the land before them?
(a) Love.
(b) Fear.
(c) Anger.
(d) Peace.

3. What type of presence is God in Isaiah?
(a) An absent presence.
(b) A solid presence.
(c) A true presence.
(d) A presence that is somewhat absent.

4. What does God admit in Is. 51:22-23?
(a) He suggests that he did not control events sufficiently to prevent unmerited suffering.
(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 feels he did the right thing regarding the Israelites and Canaanites.

5. God reduces Job to silence, but what does Job do to God thereafter?
(a) Silences him.
(b) He embarrasses him.
(c) He harrasses him.
(d) He humiliates him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an apocalypse?

2. How is Job like Abraham?

3. Why might monotheism have spread 500 years before Christianity?

4. This Book is about love and marriage.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When does God first feel pain?

3. What is the gist of Proverbs?

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

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

6. How does the Book of Ruth portray men?

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

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

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

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

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