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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Micah lived about the same time as what other prophet?
(a) Amos.
(b) Isaiah.
(c) Hosea.
(d) Jeremiah.

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

3. How did Amos describe God's voice calling to him?
(a) As a small nagging thought.
(b) As a lion's roar.
(c) As a gentle breeze.
(d) As a whisper in the night.

4. In Hosea 9:14 instead of asking God to forgive his people he asked God to deliver them what?
(a) Love.
(b) Vengeance.
(c) Hope.
(d) Wrath.

5. What change occurs in Second Isaiah toward the people of Israel?
(a) The tone.
(b) The mood.
(c) The attitude.
(d) The expectancy of behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Heschel describe the time that Jeremiah lived?

2. The author states that a prophet looked at things that seemed what to other people?

3. Micah's concern with the people was that they worshiped what?

4. Whom did Jeremiah say would overtake the cities of Judah?

5. How long is the book of Habakkuk?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does God answer Habakkuk when he asks him why and how long this will continue?

2. What does understanding God depend on, according to Heschel?

3. What does Heschel say the prophets look toward?

4. In what way were Jeremiah and Micah the same?

5. Why does Heschel say that the tone changes toward the people of Israel while Second Isaiah is the prophet?

6. Why, according to Heschel, do others reject prophets?

7. What was the prophet Micah's concern with the people?

8. Did the people listen to the prophet Isaiah?

9. Does Heschel say there is anything that can change God's judgment after the prophets warn the people of destruction?

10. Who is Second Isaiah?

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