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

2. How are the two dream interpreters, Daniel and Joseph, different?
(a) Daniel stays silent, while Joseph exalts God for the gift.
(b) Daniel exalts God for the gift, while Joseph retaliates against him.
(c) Daniel exalts God for the gift, and Joseph stays silent.
(d) Daniel retaliates against God for the horrible gift, while Joseph exalts him.

3. How is God allowing himself to be transformed in Isaiah?
(a) To an unhappy and unloved God.
(b) To be emotionally transformed from his wrathful, vengeful, remorseful past.
(c) To a more wrath-filled God.
(d) To a wrathful, vengeful, and remorseful God.

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

5. Why is God's two-part speech to Job significant?
(a) These are the last words he speaks in the Tanakh.
(b) God submits to Job.
(c) God apologizes for his actions.
(d) He and Job come to an agreement at the end.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Mordecai's reaction to the plot of Haman different from the reactions by past Jews in similar situations?

2. Job is the climax of the Tanakh. What do the books that follow do?

3. Who has God come to prefer?

4. How is God the loser in the Book of Job?

5. For what does the polytheistic retelling make up?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does God first feel pain?

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

3. Why is the Book of Job a favorite in literary circles and with skeptics?

4. How do God's people preserve him?

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

6. How does the Book of Ruth portray men?

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

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

9. Is the Tanakh a tragedy?

10. What is the gist of Proverbs?

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