Kingdoms Of Israel And Judah Ch16 Full Test Bank

Chapter 16: The Divided Kingdoms of Israel and Judah from the Late Tenth to the Early Eighth Centuries bce

Test Bank

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 01

1. Describe the relationship between the southern kingdom of Judah and the northern kingdom of Israel in the late tenth to early eighth centuries bce. How did each of these kingdoms evolve and change after they separated?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 02

2. Explain the importance of nonbiblical sources for the study of 1 Kings 12–2 Kings 14. What are these sources, and how can they be correlated or synthesized with the biblical sources to create a more stable chronology? Why does this period of biblical history see an increase in corroborating evidence from outside the Bible?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 03

3. Describe the relationship between prophets and kings in 1 Kings 12–2 Kings 14. How did the prophets influence the monarchs? How could prophets make or break a king?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 04

4. What role did queens and queen mothers play in Israel and Judah? Does the Deuteronomistic History present a balanced picture of the role of these women in both the northern and southern kingdoms?

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 01

1. The northern kingdom of Israel was larger than the southern kingdom of Judah.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 02

2. The dynastic principle of succession was well established in the southern kingdom of Judah.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 03

3. Elijah and Elisha are both prophets from the northern kingdom of Israel.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 04

4. The tenth century bce marks the first time that biblical events are corroborated by nonbiblical sources.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 05

5. Jeroboam I was Solomon’s oldest son.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 06

6. A prophet’s ecstatic state can be contagious.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 07

7. Northern Israel probably broke away because of Solomon’s taxation.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 08

8. None of Israel’s battles with Moab is recorded in Kings.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 09

9. The Urim and Thummim were used for divination.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 16 Question 10

10. Tirzah was the first capital of the northern kingdom.

a) True

b) False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 01

1. The first king of the northern kingdom was:

a. Jeroboam

b. Rehoboam

c. Asa

d. Ahab

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 02

2. Rehoboam engaged in a systematic defensive buildup that included fortifying major cities on his border because of:

a. the impending campaign of Shishak

b. repeated conflict with Jeroboam

c. all of the above

d. none of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 03

3. Jezebel was a(n):

a. Egyptian

b. Moabite

c. Assyrian

d. Tyrian

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 04

4. The northern king ________________ formed political alliances with Phoenicia through his own marriage and with Judah through the marriage of his daughter:

a. Ahab

b. Asa

c. Omri

d. Abijam

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 05

5. All are mentioned as women prophets except:

a. Miriam

b. Huldah

c. Leah

d. Noadiah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 06

6. All are themes in the Elijah/Elisha cycle except:

a. monotheism

b. the reunification of the kingdoms

c. exclusive worship of Yahweh

d. social justice

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 07

7. The only female monarch of either Israel or Judah was:

a. Jezebel

b. Noadiah

c. Athaliah

d. Nehushta

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 08

8. The northern dynasty of Omri had ___________ kings.

a. three

b. four

c. five

d. six

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 09

9. What leader erected the Black Obelisk?

a. Jereboam

b. Shishak

c. Mesha

d. Shalmaneser

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 10

10. In the ninth century bce, Israel and Judah were allied against this king of Aram-Damascus:

a. Hazael

b. Shishak

c. Mesha

d. Shalmaneser

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 11

11. __________ is the divinely appointed successor to Elijah.

a. Ahijah

b. Shemiah

c. Athaliah

d. Elisha

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 12

12. All were forms of divination except:

a. throwing dice

b. reading animal organs

c. practicing necromancy

d. performing human sacrifice

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 13

13. All were capitals of the northern kingdom of Israel except:

a. Bethel

b. Penuel

c. Samaria

d. Tirzah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 14

14. Each term refers to someone who delivers divinely sent messages except:

a. messiah

b. man of God

c. prophet

d. seer

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 15

15. The book of Kings states that Mesha of Moab defeated the Israelites because of:

a. human sacrifice

b. sacrifice to Yahweh

c. superior numbers

d. Assyrian intervention

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 16

16. This king of Israel is depicted on the Black Obelisk bowing in submission:

a. Ahab

b. Jehu

c. Jehoash

d. Amaziah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 17

17. The book of Malachi ends with an apocalyptic prediction of the return of ____________?

a. Moses

b. David

c. Elijah

d. Samuel

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 18

18. Who was not a “professional” prophet?

a. Malachi

b. Amos

c. Jeremiah

d. Isaiah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 19

19. ______________ saw the vision of “all Israel scattered on the mountains, like sheep that have no shepherd.”

a. Zedekiah

b. Huldah

c. Micaiah

d. Elisha

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 20

20. Both Elijah and Elisha perform all the following feats except:

a. raising a widow’s son to life

b. multiplying food

c. parting the waters of the Jordan

d. prophesying the death of Ahab

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 16 Question 01

1. Jeroboam established two shrines, one at _______________ and the other at ______________.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 16 Question 02

2. Omri moved the capital to ________________.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 16 Question 03

3. Ahab’s son ____________ joined forces with Jehoshaphat against Moab.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 16 Question 04

4. The Hebrew word gebira means “________________.”

a. powerful woman or queen mother

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Title: Chapter 16 Question 05

5. Jezebel presided over prophets of the deities _____________ and ____________.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 16 Question 06

6. ________________, like Micaiah, are interpreters of divine will known from the Bible and the ancient Near East.

a. prophets

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Title: Chapter 16 Question 07

7. The northern kingdom of Israel fell to Assyrian in _____________ and the southern kingdom of Judah fell to Babylonia in _______________.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 16 Question 08

8. A fragment of a stela with the name of the Egyptian pharaoh __________ on it was found at the Israelite city of Megiddo.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 16 Question 09

9. ________________ claims to have been a witness of the deliberations of the divine council, in which Yahweh decided to send his prophets a false communication.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 16 Question 10

10. The prophet ____________________ predicts the end of Baasha’s dynasty.