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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the second interlude, "Does God Fail?"
(a) It gives proof of God's successes.
(b) 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.
(c) It criticises God for all his failures.
(d) It interviews various religious authorities on their opinions on whether God has failed them.

2. What is understood and not concealed about God?
(a) His influence on the Prophets.
(b) His opinion of the Book of Esther.
(c) His relationship with Ruth.
(d) The set of inner contradictions in God.

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

4. What are the traits that come to the fore?
(a) Supreme power but peaceful.
(b) Benign and resilient.
(c) Ferocious, yet lacking in power.
(d) Fearsome and powerful.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what promise does God make good?

2. Before moving on to the Book of Exodus, what does Miles do?

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

4. The Book of Job is the Tanakh's most conscious confrontation with what side of God?

5. Is God just in the Book of Job?

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