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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. An emotional religion of sympathy is more compatible with the prophet's mentality than a religion of what?
(a) Detachment.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Reverence.
(d) Obedience.

2. Heschel says the problem is not that we depict God incorrectly but what?
(a) That we try to depict Him at all.
(b) That we don't know how to depict Him.
(c) He does not see depicting God as a problem.
(d) That we can't depict Him.

3. Prophecy arises from what, according to Heschel?
(a) An experience of inspiration.
(b) Reading the Bible.
(c) A dream.
(d) An intellectual exercise.

4. Many of the figures in the Old Testament that the prophets spoke out against were close to whom?
(a) The religious leader.
(b) The leader.
(c) The king.
(d) The priest.

5. Whom did the prophets blame for the injustices in the land?
(a) Culture.
(b) Religion.
(c) Kings and leaders.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

1. The nature of man's response to divine reality corresponds to what?

2. Heschel purports that prophets were certain about being inspired by God and were willing to prove it by what means?

3. Amos began with a message of what?

4. What did Isaiah say that God would do to those who try to honor themselves?

5. When was Marcion expelled from his church?

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