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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 do the last three Minor Prophets give God?
(a) A promise to spread his word.
(b) A gift.
(c) An oath to be loyal.
(d) A last chance to express himself directly.

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

3. What have skeptics found in the Book of Job?
(a) Reason fear the Judeo-Christian tradition.
(b) Reason to have faith in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
(c) Reason for repudiating the Judeo-Christian tradition.
(d) Reason to understand the Judeo-Christian tradition.

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

5. Which statement is true based on the traditional interpretation of the Book of Job?
(a) Job understands why he must repent.
(b) Job is a sinner but is constantly in denial.
(c) Job knows God will not save him.
(d) Job consistently trusts that God will vindicate him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is God just in the Book of Job?

2. Most often, whose words do the prophets speak?

3. Who does Daniel 8 introduce?

4. What does Job choose over God?

5. Why is God's two-part speech to Job significant?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the gist of Proverbs?

3. When does God first feel pain?

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

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

6. What lesson did God's demand for Isaac's sacrifice teach? Give an example.

7. What is the purpose of Gabriel and Michael?

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

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

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

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