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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Isaiah God is holy because of what, rather than power?
(a) He is loving.
(b) He is all-knowing.
(c) He has holy water.
(d) He is other than man and unknowable.

2. This Book is a cycle of poems about young lovers attributed to King Solomon.
(a) Proverbs.
(b) Song of Songs.
(c) Psalms.
(d) Job.

3. To what does the author compare a man who has thrown out his whoring wife, then, after she is gone, realizes he loves her no matter the mistakes she has made?
(a) The relationship between God and Israel.
(b) The prostitute that Jesus saves.
(c) The life of Ruth.
(d) Esther's climb to royalty.

4. What messages frequently contradict one another?
(a) The prophetic messages.
(b) The Sermon on the Mount messages.
(c) The Flood messages.
(d) The Creation messages.

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

6. What do these contradictions reveal?
(a) A confused God.
(b) All that is required of believers.
(c) A God in distress.
(d) Misinterpretations by translators.

7. What celebration marks this event?
(a) The two-day feast of Purim.
(b) Rashashana.
(c) Christmas.
(d) The holy day of Passover.

8. How does God appear to Job?
(a) As a lightening bolt.
(b) As a volcano.
(c) As a whirlwind.
(d) As a burning bush.

9. What essence of God is the reptilian goddess?
(a) Job.
(b) Mot.
(c) Sab.
(d) Yahweh.

10. What is not found in prophecy?
(a) False prophecy.
(b) Fear and wonder.
(c) Sanity and calmness.
(d) Mistakes.

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

12. What have skeptics found in the Book of Job?
(a) Reason to understand the Judeo-Christian tradition.
(b) Reason for repudiating the Judeo-Christian tradition.
(c) Reason to have faith in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
(d) Reason fear the Judeo-Christian tradition.

13. In what Book is God never mentioned, and the Jews' religion is not even a secondary feature of their identity?
(a) Exodus.
(b) Numbers.
(c) 2 Kings.
(d) Esther.

14. What is significant about the whirlwind speech?
(a) It is the last time God speaks in the Tanakh.
(b) It is the first time he calls himself Father.
(c) It is his most angry speech.
(d) It is the first time he apologizes for his punishments.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the earlier Hebrews careful not to do, although their neighbors would have done this?

2. Who is Sherah?

3. Why does Elizabethan society read the Bible more than it did the Greeks' writing?

4. What is a mistake God will not repeat?

5. Whose laws are codified and entrusted to human custody?

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