Appendix The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books 4th Edition

Appendix: The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books

Test Bank

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Appendix Question 01

1. Discuss the development of the Jewish belief in the afterlife during the Hellenistic period. What understandings of life after death are presented by 2 Maccabees, Ben Sira, and the Wisdom of Solomon? Are the beliefs uniform? What are the primary differences?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Appendix Question 02

2. What are the overall differences in tone and style between 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees? How can you account for these differences?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Appendix Question 03

3. How are women depicted in Ben Sira?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Appendix Question 04

4. What are the Additions to the Book of Esther? How do they change the character of the book? What motivated these changes?

Type: true-false

Title: Appendix Question 01

1. The Letter of Jeremiah is a polemic against the worship of idols.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Appendix Question 02

2. The book of Tobit was probably written in Greek originally.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Appendix Question 03

3. The book of Judith was probably written sometime after the Maccabean revolt.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Appendix Question 04

4. The Wisdom of Solomon draws heavily on Greek philosophy.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Appendix Question 05

5. 1 Maccabees is preserved only in Aramaic.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Appendix Question 06

6. The additions to the book of Esther are included in the Jewish canon.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Appendix Question 07

7. 2 Maccabees is more religious in its content than 1 Maccabees.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Appendix Question 08

8. 4 Maccabees is not a part of the canon of any religious community.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Appendix Question 09

9. 2 Maccabees contains an account of the origins of the festival of Hanukkah.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Appendix Question 10

10. The Additions to Daniel are found only in the Hebrew version of the text.

a) True

b) False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 01

1. 3 Maccabees is best categorized as a work of:

a. historiography

b. historical fiction

c. prophecy

d. poetry

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 02

2. All are additions to Daniel except:

a. Bel and the Dragon

b. the Prayer of Azariah

c. Susanna

d. Daniel and the lions

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 03

3. Tobit takes place in:

a. Judea

b. Assyria

c. Babylon

d. Persia

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 04

4. In the book of Tobit, ____________ was tormented by a demon that killed her

husbands.

a. Sarah

b. Judith

c. Esther

d. Anna

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 05

5. In the book of Judith, Nebuchadnezzar is erroneously identified as the king of:

a. Persia

b. Babylon

c. Greece

d. Assyria

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 06

6. All are thrown into the fiery furnace in the Prayer of Azariah except:

a. Belteshazzar

b. Shadrach

c. Meshach

d. Abednego

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 07

7. 1 Maccabees discusses the origins of the Jewish holiday of:

a. Yom Kippur

b. Rosh Hashanah

c. Hanukkah

d. Passover

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 08

8. The “Day of Nicanor” was a national holiday celebrating the decisive victory over a persecutor of the Jews in the book of _______________:

a. 1 Maccabees

b. 2 Maccabees

c. 4 Maccabees

d. Tobit

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 09

9. The book of Baruch uses all of the following as a primary source except:

a. Isaiah

b. Job

c. Daniel

d. 1 Maccabees

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 10

10. 2 Maccabees was written in:

a. Greek

b. Hebrew

c. Aramaic

d. Latin

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 11

11. The Latin title of the Wisdom of Jesus, son of Sirach, is:

a. Ecclesiasticus

b. Qoheleth

c. Sirach

d. Wisdom of Solomon

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 12

12. In the Bel and the Dragon story, Daniel is fed by the prophet:

a. Jonah

b. Nathan

c. Amos

d. Habakkuk

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 13

13. The book of Judith tells us that Judith was a:

a. widow

b. priestess

c. Moabite

d. prostitute

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 14

14. Ben Sira was originally written in:

a. Greek

b. Hebrew

c. Aramaic

d. Latin

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 15

15. The Wisdom of Solomon features all of the following elements except:

a. Greek philosophical vocabulary

b. a retelling of the Exodus story

c. belief in an afterlife

d. references to Isis

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 16

16. The character of Tobit shares many parallels with the figure of:

a. David

b. Jonah

c. Job

d. Jacob

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 17

17. In Sirach, the women who are portrayed most positively are:

a. singers

b. wives

c. daughters

d. mothers

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 18

18. Tobit’s wife is named:

a. Sarah

b. Anna

c. Azariah

d. Esther

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 19

19. Daniel rescues _______________ from execution by proving that her accusers

had used perjury to convict her.

a. Sarah

b. Anna

c. Judith

d. Susanna

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Appendix Question 20

20. Baruch ben Neriah was the scribe of:

a. Isaiah

b. Jeremiah

c. Ezekiel

d. Daniel

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Appendix Question 01

1. _____________ was the Assyrian general who was killed by Judith.

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Title: Appendix Question 02

2. The angel in the book of Tobit is named ________________.

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Title: Appendix Question 03

3. The Greek rendering of the Hebrew name Ezra is ________________.

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Title: Appendix Question 04

4. Tobit’s son is named ________________.

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Title: Appendix Question 05

5. Many scholars suggest that 2 Maccabees was written in the city of _______________ in Egypt.

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Title: Appendix Question 06

6. The presence of a(n) ________________ keeps the furnace in the Prayer of Azariah cool enough that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abdnego are not burned inside it.

a. angel of the Lord

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Title: Appendix Question 07

7. The Greek version of Esther includes repeated references to ____________.

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Title: Appendix Question 08

8. ________________ is an addition to the book of Daniel that is based on the motif of a satire against the worshippers of false gods.

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Title: Appendix Question 09

9. Judith is from the town of ______________.

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Title: Appendix Question 10

10. The author of __________________________has adopted the Greek view that the soul survives death.