Judah Restoration Era Chapter.22 Complete Test Bank

Chapter 22: The Restoration: Judah in the Late Sixth and Fifth Centuries bce

Test Bank

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 01

1. According to our sources, the returning exiles and those who had stayed in the land held differing viewpoints on how to proceed with the reconstruction of Israel. What were these differences? How were they reconciled?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 02

2. What sources exist for reconstructing the history of Judah in the late sixth and fifth centuries BCE? How do they help scholars to understand the time period better? What limitations do they have?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 03

3. What is apocalyptic literature? What is its relationship to the phenomenon of prophecy? How are the two similar and different?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 04

4. Why was intermarriage such a serious issue for Ezra and Nehemiah? What precedents did they have for prohibiting intermarriage?

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 22 Question 01

1. The Davidic monarchy was apparently restored after the return from exile.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 22 Question 02

2. Ezra and Nehemiah were both among the first exiles to return to Israel.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 22 Question 03

3. Malachi is a well-attested name in the Hebrew Bible with cognates throughout the ancient Near East.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 22 Question 04

4. The book Joel refers to the priests, the Temple, and the king.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 22 Question 05

5. Shinar is another name for Babylon.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 22 Question 06

6. The Second Temple period in Jewish history lasts from the late sixth century bce until the first century bce.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 22 Question 07

7. The Second Temple’s foundations were apparently the same size as those of Solomon’s Temple.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 22 Question 08

8. During the first half of the first millennium bce, Aramaic became the lingua franca of the Near East.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 22 Question 09

9. Most scholars agree that Ezra and Nehemiah were originally one unit.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 22 Question 10

10. Ezra was a governor over the province of Judea.

a) True

b) False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 01

1. All are sources for the postexilic period except:

a. Ezra

b. First Isaiah

c. Haggai

d. Zechariah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 02

2. Second Zechariah describes all of the following except:

a. a divine defeat of Israel’s enemies

b. a glorious restoration of the monarchy

c. a functioning temple

d. Jerusalem restored to its status as center of the world

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 03

3. Cyrus the Great was succeeded by:

a. Cambyses

b. Darius

c. Tattenai

d. Xerxes

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 04

4. Ezra 4.8–6.18 are written in the __________ language.

a. Aramaic

b. Hebrew

c. Persian

d. Greek

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 05

5. Zechariah 1-8 deals with the ___________ century BCE:

a. early sixth

b. late sixth

c. early fifth

d. late fifth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 06

6. All are true of Third Isaiah except:

a. it shows opposition to the Temple

b. it uses frequent biblical quotations

c. it emphasizes social justice

d. it denounces Assyria

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 07

7. In the Isaiah Apocalypse, on the day of the Lord Yahweh will finally defeat:

a. Persia

b. Baal

c. Edom

d. Leviathan

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 08

8. Both Amos and _________ describe a plague of locusts.

a. Zechariah

b. Joel

c. Malachi

d. Haggai

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 09

9. The returnees claimed to have the support of _______________________ in their efforts to rebuild the Temple.

a. Cyrus and Cambyses

b. Cambyses and Darius

c. Darius and Xerxes

d. Cyrus and Darius

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 10

10. According to Ezra, the first step in reestablishing proper worship was:

a. installation of priests

b. dedication of the Temple

c. construction of the altar

d. celebration of the sabbath

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 11

11. When the exiles returned to Israel, the high priest was:

a. Zerubbabel

b. Haggai

c. Zechariah

d. Jeshua

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 12

12. All are true of the book of Haggai except:

a. supports the restoration of the Temple

b. all oracles occur in the same year

c. is the shortest of the Minor Prophets

d. supports restoration of the monarchy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 13

13. Hopes for a restoration of the Davidic dynasty lay with:

a. Zerubbabel

b. Jeshua

c. Nehemiah

d. Ezra

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 14

14. Nehemiah had held an important position as the king of Persia’s:

a. prophet

b. vizier

c. cupbearer

d. scribe

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 15

15. Haggai describes Zerubbabel as a:

a. signet ring

b. treasured possession

c. son of oil

d. son of man

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 16

16. All of Haggai’s prophetic visions can be dated to the year:

a. 530 bce

b. 520 bce

c. 515 bce

d. 510 bce

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 17

17. Zechariah’s seventh vision is of a woman named ______________, who is taken in a covered container from Judah to Babylon.

a. Wisdom

b. Wickedness

c. Repentance

d. Sorrow

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 18

18. All opposed Nehemiah’s restoration of Jerusalem’s fortifications except:

a. Tobiah

b. Noadiah

c. Geshem

d. Artaxerxes

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 19

19. The final words of the book of ____________ likely record the ostracizing of

foreign women and their children from the community.

a. Joel

b. Haggai

c. Nehemiah

d. Ezra

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 22 Question 20

20. There may be a link between the book of Malachi and the book of:

a. Zechariah

b. Joel

c. Amos

d. First Isaiah

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 22 Question 1

1. In 538 bce the leader of the returnees from Babylon was _______________.

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Title: Chapter 22 Question 2

2. King _____________ died under mysterious circumstances in 522 bce on his return from Egypt.

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Title: Chapter 22 Question 3

3. Aramaic is a(n) _____________ language that is closely related to Hebrew.

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Title: Chapter 22 Question 4

4. _____________ is marriage outside of one’s group.

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Title: Chapter 22 Question 5

5. The word “apocalyptic” comes from a Greek term meaning ______________.

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Title: Chapter 22 Question 6

6. The Second Temple period ended in the year _________.

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Title: Chapter 22 Question 7

7. In Ezra, the governor of the province of “Beyond the River” was ____________.

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Title: Chapter 22 Question 8

8. ________________ describes all nations coming to Jerusalem to observe the festival of Booths.

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Title: Chapter 22 Question 9

9. The name “Malachi” simply means _______________.

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Title: Chapter 22 Question 10

10. Themes from the book of ______________, like the a plague of locusts, reappear in later apocalyptic literature of the New Testament.