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

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

3. Which prophet does Heschel not provide the reader his past?
(a) Micah.
(b) Elijah.
(c) Hosea.
(d) Second Isaiah.

4. What promise did God give with Second Isaiah?
(a) Promise of future wealth.
(b) Promise of redemption.
(c) Promise of destruction.
(d) Promise of love.

5. Heschel contends that the prophets were in what state of mind when they received God's call?
(a) State of madness.
(b) State of ecstasy.
(c) State of consciousness and awareness.
(d) State of passivity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Heschel call indifference?

2. Why does Heschel quote Micah 7:1-7?

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

4. Heschel says that Moses would have taught what kinds of rules of right living to the people?

5. Heschel alludes to the fact that to describe God in any terms implies that God is what?

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