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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 that Habakkuk knowing that destruction is coming feels that this is the opposite of what?
(a) God.
(b) The promise.
(c) The covenant.
(d) Good.

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

3. Heschel contrasts God to other deities, who unlike God, did not have what?
(a) Power to make heaven and earth.
(b) Power to change history.
(c) Absolute supreme power.
(d) Power to intervene in people's lives.

4. What does understanding God depend on?
(a) A person's relationship with God.
(b) A person's obedience to God's will.
(c) Sacrifice.
(d) Prayer.

5. Amos began with a message of what?
(a) Hope.
(b) Doom.
(c) Contrition.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which prophet does Heschel not provide the reader his past?

2. Heschel says that Moses would have taught what kinds of rules of right living to the people?

3. What cultural/religious doctrines did Philo try to mix in his studies?

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

5. To be a prophet means to identify one's concern with what?

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