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

2. What does prophecy combine?
(a) Meaning, movement, and morals.
(b) Teaching, tutoring, and tilling.
(c) Preaching, politics, and poetry.
(d) Reading, religion, and reason.

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

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

5. God takes notice of problems and acts, but does not reveal this until Isaiah 39.
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Fear.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is a Jewish orphan who later marries Ahasuerus, the king of Persia?

2. Who has God come to prefer?

3. How are the two dream interpreters, Daniel and Joseph, different?

4. What is an apocalypse?

5. What part of God is impulsive?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does God need the prophets?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why are Job's speeches NOT subversive?

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

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