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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How are the two dream interpreters, Daniel and Joseph, different?
(a) Daniel retaliates against God for the horrible gift, while Joseph exalts him.
(b) Daniel exalts God for the gift, and Joseph stays silent.
(c) Daniel stays silent, while Joseph exalts God for the gift.
(d) Daniel exalts God for the gift, while Joseph retaliates against him.

3. How is his presence different in Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, and Psalms?
(a) He leads his flock to heaven.
(b) He reappears.
(c) God becomes a present absence, quite gone and missed.
(d) He reappears but is silent.

4. The Book of Job is the Tanakh's most conscious confrontation with what side of God?
(a) The fatherly side.
(b) The emotional side.
(c) The caring side.
(d) The destructive or demonic side.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many solutions are there to the "problem of evil?"

2. Where is the Bible's first apocalypse recorded?

3. What does God do in Is. 40:2?

4. Is God just in the Book of Job?

5. What is the suggestion for why God did not dispense with Job rather than argue with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is God's life saved after the events involving Job?

2. How is the love between the man and wife before and after the reconciliation?

3. Why is the Tanakh closer in spirit to "Hamlet," rather than "Oedipus Rex?"

4. How did Song of Songs, which is a secular cycle of poems about young lovers, enter the Hebrew canon?

5. What is the gist of Proverbs?

6. How does the Book of Ruth portray men?

7. What happen after Ezra reads the "scroll of the Teaching of Moses?"

8. With whom does Haggai deal?

9. How do God's people preserve him?

10. What are the four things Job does, according to the common interpretation of the Book of Job?

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