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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. Heschel says the problem is not that we depict God incorrectly but what?
(a) That we can't depict Him.
(b) He does not see depicting God as a problem.
(c) That we don't know how to depict Him.
(d) That we try to depict Him at all.

2. Heschel states that it is a mistake to think that what happens on earth reflects what?
(a) What has happened in the past on earth.
(b) What is happening in heaven.
(c) What is going to happen in the future on earth.
(d) What has happened in the past in heaven.

3. When the pathos of God is upon a prophet what happens?
(a) He becomes overwhelmed.
(b) He becomes compassionate.
(c) He becomes apathetic.
(d) He becomes angry.

4. What does Heschel define as the belief in the temporary separation of the soul from the body when a person is asleep, sick, or in a trance state?
(a) Prophecy.
(b) Sympathy.
(c) Pathos.
(d) Ecstasy.

5. According to Heschel, how did God show himself to prophets?
(a) In vague notions.
(b) In totality.
(c) In absolutes.
(d) In variables.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Heschel believe drives a person's desire for ecstasy?

2. The prophet's attitude toward divine reality is described as what?

3. According to Heschel, the prophetic act takes place when the prophet is aware of what?

4. What happened to prophets when God called them to do his work?

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

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