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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is theotropism?
(a) Construing the world in human terms.
(b) Humans believing in gods.
(c) God turning towards humanity.
(d) The natural order.

2. What does Heschel define as the belief in the temporary separation of the soul from the body when a person is asleep, sick, or in a trance state?
(a) Pathos.
(b) Prophecy.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) Sympathy.

3. Amos began with a message of what?
(a) Love.
(b) Hope.
(c) Contrition.
(d) Doom.

4. What does Tao mean?
(a) The way.
(b) The only religion.
(c) The person.
(d) Unchangeable.

5. What does Heschel say prophetic consciousness does not come from?
(a) The desire to be a prophet.
(b) The human will.
(c) The human spirit.
(d) A dream.

Short Answer Questions

1. God's anger is great and to be feared, but God is also what?

2. God answers Habakkuk that God's hand is constantly working even though what?

3. Who said that what a poet writes is beautiful, if it is written with enthusiasm and divine inspiration?

4. Heschel points out that God's wrath is what?

5. What prophet did God send to Nineveh?

(see the answer key)

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