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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. What is the ultimate purpose of ecstasy?
(a) Union with the divine.
(b) Pathos.
(c) Knowledge of one's self.
(d) Apathy.

2. Hosea was aware that his relationship with his wife mirrored the relationship of whom?
(a) God and Hosea.
(b) God and his people.
(c) God's people and Hosea.
(d) God's people and their kings.

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

4. Who was Marcion?
(a) A Gnostic.
(b) A Jew.
(c) A Greek.
(d) A Christian.

5. How does Heschel describe the time during Second Isaiah?
(a) Filled with repentance.
(b) Filled with doom and hope.
(c) Filled with death and destruction.
(d) Filled with tears and joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did the prophets blame for the injustices in the land?

2. Which prophet does Heschel not provide the reader his past?

3. Jeremiah was a prophet when what happened to Jerusalem?

4. When the pathos of God is upon a prophet what happens?

5. What does Heschel use to solidify his facts about the prophets?

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