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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 an apocalypse?
(a) A tropical fruit.
(b) A cryptic revelation of imminent destruction.
(c) A prayer of mourning.
(d) A dance performed in ancient Egypt.

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) Anger.
(b) Fear.
(c) Love.
(d) Peace.

3. How does God refer to himself as female?
(a) God is the wife of Israel's youth.
(b) God is the mother of all creation.
(c) God is Israel's sister.
(d) God refers to himself as a goddess.

4. What follows the apocalypse?
(a) A crowd of enthusiasts.
(b) A definitive divine intervention at the end of time.
(c) A feast.
(d) A casket.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does God vow to Israel?

2. Who has been appointed to protect the Jews in the coming war in heaven?

3. What does prophecy combine?

4. In Isaiah God is holy because of what, rather than power?

5. What premise do Job's friends take?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Is the Tanakh a tragedy?

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

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

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

6. To what type of knowledge does the knowledge described in Isaiah refer?

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

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

9. At what times during the dialogue between God and Job does one see Elohim and Yahweh?

10. When does God first feel pain?

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