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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. What did God do after the prophet proclaimed the destruction of Nineveh and the people repented?
(a) God let the people leave Nineveh before he destroyed it.
(b) God relented and saved Nineveh.
(c) God destroyed Nineveh.
(d) God told the prophet to stay in Nineveh.

2. According to Heschel, the prophetic act takes place when the prophet is aware of what?
(a) The source of his inspiration is God.
(b) The lack of complete consciousness.
(c) The belief that something is happening to him.
(d) The lack of knowledge about who is the source of his inspiration.

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

4. 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 ecstasy.
(c) State of passivity.
(d) State of madness.

5. Whose theory said that the prophets were not talking to God but were making judgments about God's desires from the information they had about God?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Philo.
(d) Spinoza.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Stoic sage aim for?

2. How many changes in leadership were there during Jeremiah's time?

3. Heschel uses prophets from what regions or religions that used ecstasy to verify his viewpoint?

4. Jeremiah felt that his time was one of what?

5. From what civilization do we get the legacy that great poetry comes into being through madness?

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