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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. A central feature of the prophetic consciousness is what?
(a) Human knowledge about God.
(b) Human love reaching out to God.
(c) Divine concern focused on man.
(d) Divine intervention.

2. What kind of scholar was Heschel?
(a) A Jewish scholar.
(b) A biblical scholar.
(c) A Greek scholar.
(d) A philosopher.

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

4. The author states that a prophet looked at things that seemed what to other people?
(a) Sacred.
(b) Odd.
(c) Trivial.
(d) Extraneous.

5. Some writers in the Bible say that emotions and feelings have been inspired by whom?
(a) The devil.
(b) God.
(c) Mankind.
(d) The Greeks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Heschel says the problem is not that we depict God incorrectly but what?

3. When the pathos of God is upon a prophet what happens?

4. How is God's love to man shown?

5. In what religion do you do away with all feeling and obtain a type of peace?

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