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Chapter 17: The Northern Kingdom of Israel in the Eighth Century bce
Test Bank
Type: essay/short answer question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 01
1. How do nonbiblical sources supplement the biblical account of the history of the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BCE? To what extent do these sources corroborate the biblical account? How do they differ? What do these differences tell us about the perspective of the Deuteronomistic Historians?
Type: essay/short answer question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 02
2. Discuss how the nature of prophetic materials changes during the eighth century bce. What differences and continuities are there with previous prophets such as Moses, Elijah, and Elisha?
Type: essay/short answer question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 03
3. What are the major themes found in the books of Amos and Hosea? How do these themes reflect the political and social issues of the time?
Type: essay/short answer question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 04
4. How are Judah and Israel represented in the works of Amos and Hosea?
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 17 Question 01
1. Both Amos and Hosea were prophets from the north.
a) True
b) False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 17 Question 02
2. Jeroboam II receives a great deal of attention in both the Bible and Assyrian sources.
a) True
b) False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 17 Question 03
3. Most scholars believe that all of the material in Amos derives from the prophet himself.
a) True
b) False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 17 Question 04
4. Tiglath-pileser III is sometimes called Pul in the Bible.
a) True
b) False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 17 Question 05
5. Judah loses its autonomy in the eighth century bce.
a) True
b) False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 17 Question 06
6. The Latter Prophets are arranged chronologically.
a) True
b) False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 17 Question 07
7. Amos shows a close relationship to the Deuteronomistic school.
a) True
b) False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 17 Question 08
8. Hosea seems to be aware of the fall of the northern kingdom.
a) True
b) False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 17 Question 09
9. Hosea attacks Israelite religious rituals.
a) True
b) False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 17 Question 10
10. The population of Israel was exiled to Mesopotamia after the fall of Samaria.
a) True
b) False
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 01
1. Samaria was destroyed in the year ___________bce.
a. 722
b. 586
c. 850
d. 740
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 02
2. _______________ besieged and captured Samaria at the end of the eighth century.
a. Shalmaneser V
b. Shalmaneser III
c. Sargon II
d. Tiglath-pileser III
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 03
3. Amos refers to Samarian women as:
a. fat cows
b. prostitutes
c. priestesses
d. angels
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 04
4. Baal was closely associated with the fertility goddess ____________.
a. Inanna
b. Isis
c. Ishtar
d. Asherah
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 05
5. Tiglath-pileser III claimed to have installed ____________ as king of Israel.
a. Jeroboam II
b. Hoshea
c. Ahaz
d. Pekah
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 06
6. Before becoming a prophet, Amos earned his living as a:
a. herder
b. priest
c. scribe
d. metalsmith
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 07
7. Hosea’s wife was named:
a. Jezreel
b. Gomer
c. Athaliah
d. Miriam
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 08
8. The first use of the genre of covenant lawsuit occurs in the book of ___________.
a. Amos
b. Ezekiel
c. Isaiah
d. Hosea
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 09
9. The Deuteronomistic historians’ account of the fall of the northern kingdom does everything except:
a. blame the destruction on apostasy
b. emphasize theological interpretation over historical details
c. lamens that Yahweh is no longer worshipped in Samaria
d. describe the details of the deportation
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 10
10. The confrontation at Bethel occurs in the book of _________________.
a. Amos
b. Hosea
c. Isaiah
d. none of the above
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 11
11. In many of the prophets, oracles of judgment often take on the form of a(n):
a. covenant
b. lawsuit
c. oath
d. alliance
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 12
12. Assyrian advance into the Levant was halted toward the end of the ninth century bce because of revolt in:
a. Damascus
b. Urartu
c. Moab
d. Anatolia
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 13
13. All of the following nations are condemned at the beginning of Amos except:
a. Tyre
b. Edom
c. Moab
d. Assyria
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 14
14. Perhaps the most important leader of northern Israel in the eighth century bce was:
a. Pekah
b. Hoshea
c. Jeroboam II
d. Menahem
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 15
15. Most Christian canons place _________ among the Major Prophets.
a. Job
b. Micah
c. Daniel
d. Zechariah
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 16
16. Amos’s career probably took place around the year:
a. 800 bce
b. 750 bce
c. 725 bce
d. 700 bce
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 17
17. All of the following prophets attack Israelite rituals except:
a. Obadiah
b. Isaiah
c. Amos
d. Hosea
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 18
18. All are names of the children of Hosea except:
a. Jezebel
b. Jezreel
c. Not-loved
d. Not-my-people
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 19
19. In Hosea, all of the following are listed as specific transgressions of God’s law except:
a. worshiping other gods
b. forgetting the sabbath
c. making foreign alliances
d. denying social justice
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 Question 20
20. All the following statements about the Assyrian practice of deporting the inhabitants of conquered territories are true except:
a. it dates to the thirteenth century bce
b. it reduced nationalistic uprisings
c. deportees could return home after passing a loyalty test
d. it provided a source of labor for royal building projects
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 17 Question 01
1. The ___________________ is the day that God will come and fight Israel’s enemies.
a. day of the Lord
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 17 Question 02
2. Tiglath-pileser III deposed and exiled King___________________ from Israel.
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 17 Question 03
3. The northern kingdom is often called ______________, which is also the dominant tribe of the north.
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 17 Question 04
4. The Hebrew word that is usually translated as “lawsuit” is ________.
a. rîb
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 17 Question 05
5. Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel are the three books that make up the ____________.
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 17 Question 06
6. The relationship between husband and wife in ancient Israel was one of ____________ power.
a. unequal
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 17 Question 07
7. The prophets Amos and Jeremiah insist that the Israelites offered no sacrifices in the period immediately after ______________.
a. the Exodus
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 17 Question 08
8. The Minor Prophets are also called the _________________.
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 17 Question 09
9. The genre used by prophets to describe Yahweh’s judgment on foreign nations is called _____________________.
a. oracle against the nations
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 17 Question 10
10. The priest _________________ accuses Amos of treason.