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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 are two unique features of a prophet?
(a) Prayer and mercy.
(b) Forgiveness and suppression of emotion.
(c) Active cooperation and self-dedication to God.
(d) Silent subordination and self-love.

2. What does Heschel call indifference?
(a) Good.
(b) Rational.
(c) Unjust.
(d) Evil.

3. What does Heschel see as the point when freedom is lost?
(a) When God hardens a person's heart.
(b) When a person dies.
(c) When God takes it away.
(d) When a person misuses it.

4. Who stated that since the world is so full of filth and sin a just and loving God could not have created it?
(a) Philo.
(b) Marcion.
(c) Jonah.
(d) Plato.

5. According to Heschel, many parts of the Bible should be looked at as what?
(a) Poems.
(b) Essays.
(c) Allegories.
(d) Songs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Heschel use as examples of how pathos is associated to God in heaven?

2. How did Second Isaiah refer to the people of Israel?

3. In ancient times, Israel only knew God as what?

4. Who was Hezekiah?

5. Heschel said that some of the beliefs that the prophets were frauds came from an era when people wanted what?

(see the answer key)

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