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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. 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) In control.
(c) Passive.
(d) Rational.

2. Heschel uses prophets from what regions or religions that used ecstasy to verify his viewpoint?
(a) Shiite and Greek.
(b) Egypt and Greek.
(c) Egypt and Mesopotamia.
(d) Islam and Mesopotamia.

3. What country did Israel ask for help and protection from Assyria during the time of Isaiah?
(a) Babylon.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Mesopotamia.
(d) Syria.

4. What is anthropopathy?
(a) The attribution of human qualities to gods.
(b) The attribution of God-like qualities to humans.
(c) Personification.
(d) The attribution of human qualities to animals.

5. Jeremiah felt that his time was one of what?
(a) Change.
(b) Destruction.
(c) Fluidity.
(d) Emergency.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to prophets when God called them to do his work?

2. How does Heschel describe freedom?

3. What does Habakkuk ask God directly?

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

5. Why was Jeremiah imprisoned?

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