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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. If ecstasy were a requirement for a prophet, which prophets of the Old Testament would not have been classified as prophets?
(a) Micah and Jonah.
(b) Moses and Isaiah.
(c) Second Isaiah and Habakkuk.
(d) Daniel and Zechariah.

2. Heschel says that Jeremiah is often called a prophet of what?
(a) Love.
(b) Wrath.
(c) Doom.
(d) Forgiveness.

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

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

5. What is anthropopathy?
(a) The attribution of human qualities to animals.
(b) Personification.
(c) The attribution of God-like qualities to humans.
(d) The attribution of human qualities to gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Heschel points out that God's wrath is what?

2. What term does Jeremiah use for the people of God because they refuse to turn themselves toward God?

3. What is the origin of pathos?

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

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

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