Body Parts Quiz Answers
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which group correctly names the three friends who first arrive to mourn with Job?
Elihu, Eliphaz, and Zophar
Eliphaz, Elihu, and Bildad
Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar
Bildad, Zophar, and Elihu
2. Job contrasts hearing with sight near the end: “I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now…” How does the thought continue?
My hand has reached toward you
My mouth has spoken your name
My eye sees you
My heart no longer questions you
3. Why has Elihu held back while Job and the three older friends speak?
He has been asked to record the debate without joining it
He is younger and initially defers to their age
He has only just learned of Job’s suffering
He is waiting for Job’s wife to give testimony
4. What happens to Job’s material fortunes in the concluding prose narrative?
His fortunes are restored, and he receives twice as much as before
His friends divide their property equally with him
He receives back exactly the amount he had before
They remain lost, although his health returns
5. What does Job’s wife urge him to do after his bodily affliction?
Confess the secret act that caused his suffering
Leave his friends and seek a physician
Ask the elders of Uz to judge his case
Curse God and die
6. How extensively is Job’s body afflicted with painful sores?
Only on his hands and feet
Across his back and shoulders
From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head
On one side of his body
7. When Job says he will put his hand over his mouth, what response is he signaling in context?
Restraint and recognition that he has spoken enough
A refusal to hear any further questions
A plan to hide his identity from his accusers
A request for his physical pain to be healed
8. Sitting among the ashes, how does Job respond physically to his sores?
He scrapes himself with a piece of broken pottery
He washes them with water and oil
He binds them with strips of his torn robe
He asks his friends to cover them with ashes
9. A student notices that Job begins with narrated events, moves into extended speeches, and ends with narrated events. Which description best fits that structure?
A collection of unrelated proverbs followed by a legal code
A sequence of songs arranged without a concluding narrative
A continuous first-person memoir written entirely in poetry
A prose narrative frame surrounding extensive poetic dialogue
10. Job longs for someone who could stand between him and God and figuratively place a hand on both. Which role best captures that wish?
A royal successor
A mediator or arbiter
A temple musician
A military defender
11. Who says “skin for skin” while arguing that a person will surrender possessions to preserve life?
Elihu
Job’s wife
Zophar
The accuser
12. In God’s speeches, descriptions of Behemoth and Leviathan most strongly challenge Job to consider what?
The superiority of city life over wilderness life
The need to identify which friend caused his losses
The scale of divine power and the limits of human control
The method by which his property will be restored
13. A reader compares Job’s first and second tests. What change occurs when the second test begins?
Job is permitted to question his friends for the first time
Job’s own body may be afflicted, but his life must be spared
The friends, rather than the accuser, are allowed to test Job
Job must leave Uz, but his health and property are protected
14. After hearing the reports of his devastating losses, what bodily action does Job take as part of his mourning?
He covers his face and refuses to stand
He cuts his hair and leaves the land of Uz
He washes his hands and changes his clothes
He tears his robe and shaves his head
15. In the book’s opening, who is described as upright, fearing God, and turning away from—or “eschewing”—evil?
Eliphaz
Job
Elihu
Bildad
16. From what setting does God answer Job near the climax of the book?
From the whirlwind
From a fire on the mountain
From beside the river Jordan
From the entrance of the meeting tent