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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 was Micah's message?
(a) Love and generosity.
(b) Doom and destruction.
(c) Sweetness and light.
(d) Hope and forgiveness.

2. 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?
(a) Taken over by another.
(b) Rational.
(c) Passive.
(d) In control.

3. According to Heschel, the prophets had no ideas about God, but had what?
(a) A relationship.
(b) An experience of him.
(c) An understanding.
(d) An obedience.

4. Heschel says that Moses would have taught what kinds of rules of right living to the people?
(a) Simple rules.
(b) Unusual rules.
(c) Bizarre rules.
(d) Complex rules.

5. Heschel contends that the prophets were in what state of mind when they received God's call?
(a) State of passivity.
(b) State of ecstasy.
(c) State of madness.
(d) State of consciousness and awareness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did God do after the prophet proclaimed the destruction of Nineveh and the people repented?

2. What does Heschel believe drives a person's desire for ecstasy?

3. What does Heschel say will change God's judgment about destruction?

4. Why does Heschel quote Micah 7:1-7?

5. What is Karma?

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