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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. In what religion do you do away with all feeling and obtain a type of peace?
(a) Islam.
(b) Karma.
(c) Hindu.
(d) Taoism.

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

3. How did Second Isaiah refer to the people of Israel?
(a) People who were turning away from God.
(b) People who were not worshipping their God.
(c) People who did not understand their God.
(d) People who were searching and working towards righteousness.

4. When the pathos of God is upon a prophet what happens?
(a) He becomes compassionate.
(b) He becomes angry.
(c) He becomes apathetic.
(d) He becomes overwhelmed.

5. Why was Jeremiah imprisoned?
(a) Because of his prophesies.
(b) Because he spoke out against the king.
(c) Because he abandoned the Babylonians.
(d) Because he abandoned the Assyrians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Heschel use as examples of how pathos is associated to God in heaven?

2. Heschel describes the words of prophecy as a polarity between what?

3. Whom did the prophets blame for the injustices in the land?

4. From what civilization do we get the legacy that great poetry comes into being through madness?

5. According to some scholars, the goal should not be pathos but what?

(see the answer key)

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