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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Psalm 2 do nothing short but envision?
(a) A war zone.
(b) A peaceful world.
(c) An apocalypse.
(d) A world empire led by God's anointed king/messiah.

2. Who does Daniel 8 introduce?
(a) The prophet Elisha.
(b) The devil Satan.
(c) The angel Michael.
(d) The angel Gabriel.

3. What does God do in Is. 40:2?
(a) He begins to love his creation.
(b) He feels regret.
(c) He almost admits that his punishment went too far.
(d) He reaches the conclusion that he made an appropriate decision regarding the Israelites.

4. Why might monotheism have spread 500 years before Christianity?
(a) If the Jews had kept their faith in God.
(b) If Ezra had insisted the Jews marry into other cultures.
(c) If Ezra had not demanded the remnant of the Jews to divorce their non-Jewish wives and expel their children.
(d) If the Jews had not died out.

5. Where do Eloh and Yah send ferocious Sab?
(a) To rescue the Israelites from the Egyptians.
(b) To the burning bush to speak with Moses.
(c) To kill the Israelites.
(d) To the burning pits of hell.

6. Who are the three major prophets?
(a) John, Jesus, Jacob.
(b) Isaac, Joseph, Mark.
(c) Edward, Ishmael, Jesse.
(d) Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel.

7. How will prophecy be examined in this book?
(a) As the historical evidence of God in narrative form.
(b) As the aspects of God in narrative form.
(c) As an explanation of the origins of God.
(d) As the self-characterization of God in a non-narrative form.

8. What Book does he move to complete absence?
(a) Book of Job.
(b) Book of Proverbs.
(c) Book of Esther.
(d) Book of John.

9. 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) It is in English, so they can better understand it than other literature.
(c) They are drawn to the way the Bible is written.
(d) Queen Elizabeth forbids all literature other than the Bible.

10. What need not always be an element in either Jewish identity or Jewish self-defense?
(a) Fidelity to the Jewish religion.
(b) Belief in the creation story.
(c) Adhering to the Ten Commandments.
(d) The clothing requirements decreed by God.

11. How are the Jews saved?
(a) God sends a flood to kill the enemy.
(b) God comes down from heaven in all his glory and wreaks havok upon the enemy.
(c) Ruth gathers up her people and leads them in a second mass exodus.
(d) They are given a one-day immunity to wreak vengeance on their enemies and claim 75,000 lives.

12. What is inherently unstable in God?
(a) His love for humankind.
(b) Fusion of personalities.
(c) God's wrath.
(d) His creation.

13. How is Job like Abraham?
(a) He goes along with what he must and withholds everything he can.
(b) He does all that God asks.
(c) His children inherit the earth.
(d) He loves God.

14. Who is Sherah?
(a) God's companion.
(b) The messiah.
(c) Abraham's wife.
(d) A goddess of creativity, wisdom, and skill.

15. What premise do Job's friends take?
(a) That God is spiteful.
(b) That God is unjust.
(c) That God is loving.
(d) That God is just.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what Book is God never mentioned, and the Jews' religion is not even a secondary feature of their identity?

2. What book of the Bible has long been a favorite in literary circles?

3. What essence of God is the reptilian goddess?

4. What do the six books from Song of Songs to Daniel share?

5. In Isaiah God is holy because of what, rather than power?

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