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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the time Exodus begins, what has happened to Abraham's descendants?
(a) They are at war with one another.
(b) They have become innumerable, to the point they are a threat to Egypt.
(c) They are almost extinct.
(d) They have moved to Europe.

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

3. What is the purpose of the second interlude, "Does God Fail?"
(a) It criticises God for all his failures.
(b) It interviews various religious authorities on their opinions on whether God has failed them.
(c) It gives proof of God's successes.
(d) It performs a status check on how god has been characterized in the first eleven primarily historical books of the Tanakh, before turning to the prophets and other literary forms.

4. What effect does God's decision to take the bet have on Job?
(a) Job becomes wealthy.
(b) Job loses his wife.
(c) Job loses everyone dear to him.
(d) Job dies.

5. How does God come to understand that he wants to limit and channel the gift of procreation?
(a) After Adam takes a bite from the apple.
(b) After creating the earth.
(c) Through man.
(d) Through his thoughts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the traits that come to the fore?

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

3. Which statement is true based on the traditional interpretation of the Book of Job?

4. Why did the horrible destruction threatened in Deuteronomy 28 have to take place?

5. Since Job does not repent for offenses he did not commit, who must repent?

(see the answer key)

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