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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 the Tanakh begin with its climax and descend from there?
(a) This is the traditional middle eastern form of story telling.
(b) God is excited about his creation and grows more and more disinterested as time goes by.
(c) Confidence at the time of creation seems to blind God to the consequences of his actions, and he grows quieter the better he comes to understand the course of history.
(d) The Jews want to capture the attention of the reader, so by placing the climax at the beginning, it attracts and keeps the reader's attention.

2. The Book of Job is the Tanakh's most conscious confrontation with what side of God?
(a) The fatherly side.
(b) The emotional side.
(c) The destructive or demonic side.
(d) The caring side.

3. In what Book is God never mentioned, and the Jews' religion is not even a secondary feature of their identity?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Esther.
(c) Exodus.
(d) 2 Kings.

4. Job is the climax of the Tanakh. What do the books that follow do?
(a) They reiterate the past books.
(b) Mark time and lull.
(c) They are sad and dreary.
(d) They are full of adventures.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does God do in Is. 40:2?

2. What do these contradictions reveal?

3. How does God refer to himself as female?

4. How is Job like Abraham?

5. What tribe is the only one to survive the exile as an intact entity?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do God's people preserve him?

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

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

6. Why are Job's speeches NOT subversive?

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

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

9. What proof is there that Job silences God?

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

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