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Suffering & Evil Quiz

Why do bad things happen to good people?

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Jewish thinkers throughout the ages have asked: Why do bad things happen to good people?

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Question 1 of 10
Why is the question of suffering and evil unique among theological and philosophical problems?
Question 2 of 10
Which approach to a painful experience does Rabbi Harold Kushner recommend?
Question 3 of 10
Which of the following thinkers first posited that both good and evil forces emanate from God?
Question 4 of 10
Is the character of Job (from the Book of Job) a Jew?
Question 5 of 10
Which of the following did Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, believe?
Question 6 of 10
Who called evil "the most difficult matter…with which scholars of all ages, people and tongues have struggled"?
Question 7 of 10
The problem of justifying God despite the existence of evil is called:
Question 8 of 10
Which of these texts was the first to ask the question "Why do bad things happen to good people"?
Question 9 of 10
What is the Sitra Ahra?
Question 10 of 10
In Reeve Robert Brenner's study documenting Holocaust survivors' faith in God, what results were found?
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