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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. What were the prophets overwhelmed with in addition to emotion?
(a) The need for action.
(b) The need to speak with God.
(c) The need to be respected.
(d) The need to go off and pray.

2. Why does Heschel quote Micah 7:1-7?
(a) To prove Micah is a prophet.
(b) To show Micah's intense nature.
(c) To illustrate God's passions.
(d) To show what the people were like.

3. Heschel states that it is important to distinguish between the objective and subjective aspects of what?
(a) Religious sympathy.
(b) Biblical prophecy.
(c) The prophetic consciousness of God.
(d) Ecstasy.

4. In early Israel, the gift of poetry was regarded as what?
(a) A psychic ability.
(b) An intellectual gift.
(c) A talent.
(d) A gift of the Spirit.

5. Heschel said that some of the beliefs that the prophets were frauds came from an era when people wanted what?
(a) Shibboleth.
(b) Rationality.
(c) Conformity.
(d) Certainty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who imprisoned Jeremiah?

3. What does Heschel say is the basis for the relationship of God and man?

4. For what does Heschel say God wants his people to obey?

5. What appears to us as wild emotionalism in the prophets, Heschel says may seem like what to the prophets themselves?

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