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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Heschel quote Micah 7:1-7?
(a) To show Micah's intense nature.
(b) To show what the people were like.
(c) To illustrate God's passions.
(d) To prove Micah is a prophet.

2. Heschel explains that some think the prophets may have been victims of what?
(a) Religious fervor.
(b) Illusions.
(c) Hallucinations.
(d) Mental abnormalities.

3. When talking about the inspiration for poetry, who says "One does not ask who gives."
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Plato.
(d) Democritus.

4. What is Karma?
(a) A religion that believes in prophetic thinking.
(b) A way of life.
(c) An opposite to prophetic thinking.
(d) A special relationship to God.

5. To what does Heschel compare the descriptions of prophecy?
(a) Religious literature.
(b) Grace and holiness.
(c) Religious fervor.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Jeremiah, God states that he will have to destroy what he has built. What was he referring to?

2. Why did some scholars reject the idea of pathos?

3. Micah's concern with the people was that they worshiped what?

4. What does Heschel say plays a part in the message that the prophets bring to the people?

5. Heschel alludes to the fact that to describe God in any terms implies that God is what?

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