Chapter.19 Test Questions & Answers Judah Fall Of Jerusalem

Chapter 19: Judah in the Seventh and Early Sixth Centuries bce: The End of Assyrian Domination and the Fall of Jerusalem

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Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 01

1. The book of Kings paints a very negative picture of Manasseh. Could this assessment be accurate? How would you characterize the reign of Manasseh?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 02

2. What is the relationship between the book of Jeremiah and the Deuteronomic school? How does this compare to the relationship between the Deuteronomic school and other prophetic writings?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 03

3. How is the royal ideology depicted in Jeremiah and 2 Kings 23.31–25.30? What role did the royal ideology play in the fall of Jerusalem?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 04

4. Much of the Deuteronomistic historians’ account of Josiah is highly idealized. What can be said about the historical Josiah? Does he deserve such praise from the historians? Why are he and his great-grandfather, Hezekiah, so important to the historians?

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 19 Question 01

1. Assyria and Nineveh were ultimately destroyed by the Egyptians.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 19 Question 02

2. The “Babylonian Chronicles” are cuneiform tablets that summarize the reigns of important rulers of the ancient Near East in the late seventh and sixth centuries bce.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 19 Question 03

3. At its peak, the Assyrian empire controlled all of the Near East with the exception of Babylon.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 19 Question 04

4. Manasseh is the worst king of Judah according to the Deuteronomistic Historians.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 19 Question 05

5. Nebuchadrezzar appointed Mattaniah as king of Judah in 597 BCE and renamed him Zephaniah.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 19 Question 06

6. Josiah was killed by the Assyrians.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 19 Question 07

7. Zephaniah juxtaposes Israel and Nineveh as objects of God’s wrath.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 19 Question 08

8. The book of Habakkuk describes the triumph of Yahweh as the divine warrior in mythological language reminiscent of Exodus 15 and Judges 5.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 19 Question 09

9. The book of Habakkuk provides no information about the prophet’s life.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 19 Question 10

10. The Lachish letters were nearly two dozen inscribed potsherds or ostraca.

a) True

b) False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 01

1. Josiah’s immediate predecessor as king of Israel was:

a. Hezekiah

b. Manasseh

c. Amon

d. Jehoahaz

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 02

2. The Deuteronomistic Historians condemn Manasseh mainly because of his:

a. apostasy

b. tribute to Assyria

c. taxation

d. foreign birth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 03

3. The Temple scroll discovered during the reign of Josiah is often identified as:

a. Exodus

b. Leviticus

c. Numbers

d. Deuteronomy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 04

4. The Babylonian king who destroyed Jerusalem was:

a. Nabo-polassar

b. Nebuchadrezzer II

c. Evil-merodach

d. Neco

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 05

5. Jehoiachin’s father was:

a. Manasseh

b. Josiah

c. Jehoahaz

d. Jehoiakim

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 06

6. Many battles have been fought in the biblical city of _________________, and so the book of Revelation identifies it as the site of the future final battle between the forces of good and evil.

a. Jerusalem

b. Jericho

c. Megiddo

d. Lachish

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 07

7. Another name for the Babylonians is:

a. Chaldeans

b. Assyrians

c. Medes

d. Elamites

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 08

8. The nation that filled the Near Eastern power vacuum after Assyria’s defeat was:

a. Egypt

b. Media

c. Babylonia

d. Aram

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 09

9. Josiah’s immediate successor was:

a. Jehoiakim

b. Amon

c. Neco

d. Jehoahaz

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 10

10. The book of _______________ expresses unmitigated hatred of the Assyrians.

a. Zephaniah

b. Nahum

c. Habakkuk

d. Jeremiah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 11

11. Jeremiah’s scribe was:

a. Baruch

b. Ezra

c. Habakkuk

d. Nehemiah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 12

12. Although _______________ was the last Davidic king to rule Judah, the Deuteronomistic History ends with a report of his predecessor.

a. Jehoahaz

b. Jehoiakim

c. Jehoiachin

d. Zedekiah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 13

13. _________________ was a general who had assumed the throne of Babylon in 626 BCE.

a. Nabo-polassar

b. Nebuchadrezzar II

c. Amel-Marduk

d. Neco

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 14

14. According to Jeremiah, _______________ was unconcerned when he heard the prophet’s words and burned the scroll recording them.

a. Manasseh

b. Jehoahaz

c. Jehoiakim

d. Jehoiachin

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 15

15. Zephaniah includes all of the following except:

a. a genealogy

b. a day of the Lord motif

c. judgment oracles

d. a farewell address

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 16

16. The prophet ______________ incorrectly predicted that Josiah would die in peace because of his repentance.

a. Nahum

b. Zephaniah

c. Isaiah

d. Huldah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 17

17. Later tradition identifies Jeremiah as the author of the book of:

a. Baruch

b. Ezra

c. Habakkuk

d. Lamentations

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 18

18. The Babylonians defeated Assyria and ____________ in the battle of Carchemish in 605 BCE.

a. Aram

b. Edom

c. the Medes

d. Egypt

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 19

19. Josiah was killed at:

a. Jerusalem

b. Babylon

c. Megiddo

d. Beersheba

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 Question 20

20. All of the following discuss the fall of Jerusalem except:

a. Jeremiah

b. Ezekiel

c. Chronicles

d. Habakkuk

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Title: Chapter 19 Question 01

1. Manasseh was the son of ________________.

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Title: Chapter 19 Question 02

2. Jehoahaz was deposed after a rule of only three months by_______________.

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Title: Chapter 19 Question 03

3. The principal catalyst for Assyria’s demise was the death of ______________.

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Title: Chapter 19 Question 04

4. Josiah’s reform was capped with a national celebration of _______________.

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Title: Chapter 19 Question 05

5. ______________ was king of Judah in 597 when Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem and exiled several thousand of the elite.

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Title: Chapter 19 Question 06

6. The book of ______________ opens with hymnic praise of Yahweh as the divine warrior whose dramatic theophany affects the entire cosmos.

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Title: Chapter 19 Question 07

7. Jerusalem fell in the year _____________ bce.

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Title: Chapter 19 Question 08

8. The prophet _______________ appears in the apocryphal addition to the book of Daniel called “Bel and the Dragon.”

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Title: Chapter 19 Question 09

9. The ______________________ are personal laments that illustrate the prophet’s unhappiness with the message he was commissioned to deliver.

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Title: Chapter 19 Question 10

10. Prophets often communicated their message by performing symbolic actions called _____________________.