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

2. The prophet's attitude toward divine reality is described as what?
(a) Mercy.
(b) Pathos.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Sympathy.

3. What did Amos speak out against that differed from Hosea?
(a) Infidelity.
(b) Injustice.
(c) Negligence.
(d) Accumulation of wealth.

4. Hosea was aware that his relationship with his wife mirrored the relationship of whom?
(a) God's people and their kings.
(b) God and his people.
(c) God's people and Hosea.
(d) God and Hosea.

5. Heschel describes God as what?
(a) Father.
(b) Someone who cannot be described.
(c) The ultimate judge.
(d) The ultimate source of the universe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Heschel say the prophets had to endure?

2. What attitude does Heschel take to other points of view that he uses in his book?

3. What does Heschel call indifference?

4. Heschel says God hates sin but is also what?

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

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