Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Except for the Book of Esther, the Book of Ruth is the only canonical work in the Hebrew Bible whose principle figure is a woman.
2. The book of Ruth was read at the Festival of Sukkoth.
3. Ruth portrays relations between Judeans and Moabites as tense and strained.
4. Intermarriage, condemned by Deuteronomistic authors, is treated more ambivalently in the book of Ruth.
5. At its conclusion, the Book of Ruth reveals that she is the great-grandmother of King Solomon.


1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. FALSE

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