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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. Heschel points out that God's wrath is what?
(a) Like people's wrath.
(b) Righteous and just.
(c) Vengeful.
(d) Terrible.

2. In what belief is there no grace or repentance for sin, just cause and effect?
(a) Karma.
(b) Islam.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Tao.

3. What does Heschel use to solidify his facts about the prophets?
(a) Opinions of others.
(b) His opinions.
(c) The prophets' own words.
(d) Other parts of the Bible.

4. What does Heschel say the prophets had to endure?
(a) Scorn.
(b) Ill health.
(c) Lack of wealth.
(d) Loneliness.

5. Who imprisoned Jeremiah?
(a) Israelites.
(b) Babylonians.
(c) Canaanites.
(d) Assyrians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two unique features of a prophet?

2. Who stated that since the world is so full of filth and sin a just and loving God could not have created it?

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

4. The author describes what era in the Old Testament?

5. Heschel alludes to the fact that to describe God in any terms implies that God is what?

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