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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what promise does God make good?
(a) To love his followers.
(b) To use foreign nations as instruments to punish his erstwhile convenant partner.
(c) To destroy Israel a second time.
(d) To protect his people.

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

3. How many solutions are there to the "problem of evil?"
(a) Ten.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

4. What are the three aspects of divine self-discovery?
(a) The "feared," "ferocious," and "fury" identities.
(b) The "father," "lover," and "friend" identities.
(c) The "liberator," "friend of the family," and "lawgiver" identities.
(d) The "god," "leader," and "interpreter" identities.

5. After the Babylonians are defeated by the Persians, what do the Judeans begin to be called?
(a) Jews.
(b) Israelites.
(c) Persians.
(d) Judes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Jew leave the text where it is?

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

3. How will prophecy be examined in this book?

4. What is the unifying principle of the Tanakh?

5. What else does the God of Heaven want to be?

(see the answer key)

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