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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. In contrast to the Stoic sage, Heschel characterizes the prophet as what?
(a) Homo apathetikos.
(b) Homo sympathetikos.
(c) Homo sapiens.
(d) Sui generis.

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

3. In Hosea 9:14 instead of asking God to forgive his people he asked God to deliver them what?
(a) Vengeance.
(b) Wrath.
(c) Love.
(d) Hope.

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

5. What people did Amos, Hosea, and Isaiah try to save?
(a) The people of the Eastern Kingdom.
(b) The people of the Northern Kingdom.
(c) The people of the Western Kingdom.
(d) The people of the Southern Kingdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the ultimate purpose of ecstasy?

2. In the Old Testament, sacrifices were part of the people's what?

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

4. One view that Heschel discusses is that an outstanding feature of a poet's consciousness is the sense of being what at the moment of inspiration?

5. Jeremiah the prophet said that God delights in what?

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