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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. To what does Heschel compare the descriptions of prophecy?
(a) Grace and holiness.
(b) Religious fervor.
(c) Religious literature.
(d) Poetry.

2. Heschel points out that God's wrath is what?
(a) Righteous and just.
(b) Like people's wrath.
(c) Vengeful.
(d) Terrible.

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

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

5. What appears to us as wild emotionalism in the prophets, Heschel says may seem like what to the prophets themselves?
(a) Passion.
(b) Sentimentality.
(c) Proper behavior.
(d) Restraint.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Heschel compare the words of the prophet?

2. What country did Israel ask for help and protection from Assyria during the time of Isaiah?

3. How does Heschel describe the time during Second Isaiah?

4. What does Heschel say that Habakkuk is tormented by?

5. Heschel says that prophets have a duty to what?

(see the answer key)

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