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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prophets were hypersensitive to what?
(a) Things that offended God.
(b) Expensive habits.
(c) People calling them crazy.
(d) Religious fanatics.

2. Heschel says that God is our father but also our judge, and when he judges us he is also what?
(a) Compassionate.
(b) Vengeful.
(c) Remorseful.
(d) Just.

3. Heschel contrasts God to other deities, who unlike God, did not have what?
(a) Absolute supreme power.
(b) Power to intervene in people's lives.
(c) Power to change history.
(d) Power to make heaven and earth.

4. The author states that a prophet looked at things that seemed what to other people?
(a) Extraneous.
(b) Odd.
(c) Sacred.
(d) Trivial.

5. What does Heschel avoid telling the reader about the prophets' message?
(a) Whether the prophet's message was legitimate.
(b) Whether he agrees or disagrees.
(c) The specific outcome of the message.
(d) The historical context of the message.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to prophets when God called them to do his work?

2. According to Heschel, in what way did Hosea differ from Amos?

3. What does Heschel see as the point when freedom is lost?

4. What does the Stoic sage aim for?

5. What social ill did Hosea primarily speak out against?

(see the answer key)

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