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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. The prophets were outraged because of what?
(a) People's lack of understanding.
(b) Idolatry.
(c) The king's edicts.
(d) Injustice.

2. Heschel says God hates sin but is also what?
(a) Forgiving.
(b) Intolerant of injustice.
(c) Judgmental.
(d) Vengeful.

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

4. What does Heschel describe as not a goal, but a challenge, a commitment, a state of tension?
(a) Prophetic ethos.
(b) Pathos.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) Prophetic sympathy.

5. What cultural/religious doctrines did Philo try to mix in his studies?
(a) Egyptian and Islamic.
(b) Greek and Jewish.
(c) Greek and Islamic.
(d) Jewish and Egyptian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What attitude does Heschel take to other points of view that he uses in his book?

2. Heschel describes God as what?

3. In what religion do you do away with all feeling and obtain a type of peace?

4. What does understanding God depend on?

5. The nature of man's response to divine reality corresponds to what?

(see the answer key)

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