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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. Heschel states that it is a mistake to think that what happens on earth reflects what?
(a) What has happened in the past in heaven.
(b) What is happening in heaven.
(c) What has happened in the past on earth.
(d) What is going to happen in the future on earth.

2. Heschel alludes to the fact that to describe God in any terms implies that God is what?
(a) Not all powerful.
(b) Sinful.
(c) Not all knowing.
(d) Imperfect.

3. What does Heschel see as the point when freedom is lost?
(a) When God hardens a person's heart.
(b) When a person dies.
(c) When a person misuses it.
(d) When God takes it away.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Marcion expelled from his church?

2. According to Heschel, many parts of the Bible should be looked at as what?

3. If ecstasy were a requirement for a prophet, which prophets of the Old Testament would not have been classified as prophets?

4. What does Heschel define as the belief in the temporary separation of the soul from the body when a person is asleep, sick, or in a trance state?

5. To be a prophet means to identify one's concern with what?

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