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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 6-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the ultimate purpose of ecstasy?
(a) Knowledge of one's self.
(b) Pathos.
(c) Union with the divine.
(d) Apathy.

2. Heschel says that God is our father but also our judge, and when he judges us he is also what?
(a) Vengeful.
(b) Just.
(c) Remorseful.
(d) Compassionate.

3. What does Heschel describe as not a goal, but a challenge, a commitment, a state of tension?
(a) Prophetic ethos.
(b) Pathos.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) Prophetic sympathy.

4. "The Prophets" was written for which religious groups?
(a) Jews and Christians.
(b) Jews and Muslims.
(c) Jews and Orthodox.
(d) Christians and Muslims.

5. Which prophet does Heschel not provide the reader his past?
(a) Hosea.
(b) Micah.
(c) Second Isaiah.
(d) Elijah.

Short Answer Questions

1. From the total perspective, what does Heschel say are demands rather than fulfillments?

2. Jeremiah says that even though people are punished they don't seem to what?

3. In Hosea 9:14 instead of asking God to forgive his people he asked God to deliver them what?

4. An emotional religion of sympathy is more compatible with the prophet's mentality than a religion of what?

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

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