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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. How long is the book of Habakkuk?
(a) A few chapters.
(b) 10 chapters.
(c) Longer than Jeremiah.
(d) Longest book of "The Prophets".

2. Heschel uses prophets from what regions or religions that used ecstasy to verify his viewpoint?
(a) Islam and Mesopotamia.
(b) Shiite and Greek.
(c) Egypt and Mesopotamia.
(d) Egypt and Greek.

3. Heschel says that Moses would have taught what kinds of rules of right living to the people?
(a) Complex rules.
(b) Bizarre rules.
(c) Unusual rules.
(d) Simple rules.

4. In early Israel, the gift of poetry was regarded as what?
(a) An intellectual gift.
(b) A gift of the Spirit.
(c) A talent.
(d) A psychic ability.

5. Heschel links divine inspiration to what?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Songs.
(d) Divination.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. One view that Heschel discusses is that an outstanding feature of a poet's consciousness is the sense of being what at the moment of inspiration?

3. What changed with Second Isaiah?

4. In what religion do you do away with all feeling and obtain a type of peace?

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

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