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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Isaiah say that God would do to those who try to honor themselves?
(a) Bring them to humility and dishonor.
(b) Honor their fathers and mothers.
(c) Honor them as well.
(d) Build them a nation.

4. Another theory regarding the inspiration of the prophets regarded the prophetic act as what?
(a) An act of unconsciousness.
(b) An act of poetic creation.
(c) An act of madness.
(d) An act of rebellion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Marcion?

2. Heschel looks at the theory of ecstasy but limits it to what?

3. "The Prophets" was written for which religious groups?

4. Jeremiah the prophet said that God delights in what?

5. Why was Jeremiah imprisoned?

(see the answer key)

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