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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. Jeremiah was a prophet when what happened to Jerusalem?
(a) It was the center of culture.
(b) It prospered.
(c) It became the capital of the Assyrian empire.
(d) It fell.

2. Heschel admits that pathos is both a paradox and what?
(a) A commandment.
(b) Easy to explain.
(c) A mystery.
(d) A divine concept.

3. Jeremiah felt that his time was one of what?
(a) Destruction.
(b) Emergency.
(c) Change.
(d) Fluidity.

4. How does Heschel describe the time that Jeremiah lived?
(a) One of injustice.
(b) One of war.
(c) One of peace.
(d) One of anger and wrath.

5. What does Tao mean?
(a) Unchangeable.
(b) The way.
(c) The only religion.
(d) The person.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to using information from Israel's culture, Heschel uses information from what in order to understand the prophets?

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

3. God's anger is great and to be feared, but God is also what?

4. Another theory regarding the inspiration of the prophets regarded the prophetic act as what?

5. What does Habakkuk ask God directly?

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