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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Heschel states that it is a mistake to think that what happens on earth reflects what?
(a) What has happened in the past on earth.
(b) What is going to happen in the future on earth.
(c) What is happening in heaven.
(d) What has happened in the past in heaven.

2. Heschel says that Habakkuk knowing that destruction is coming feels that this is the opposite of what?
(a) Good.
(b) God.
(c) The promise.
(d) The covenant.

3. What changed with Second Isaiah?
(a) The weather.
(b) The people.
(c) The situation.
(d) The king.

4. Isaiah was aware that disaster was coming and from that disaster would come what?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Exile.
(c) Victory.
(d) Redemption.

5. How many changes in leadership were there during Jeremiah's time?
(a) Many.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) None.

6. How does Heschel describe the time during Second Isaiah?
(a) Filled with doom and hope.
(b) Filled with death and destruction.
(c) Filled with repentance.
(d) Filled with tears and joy.

7. According to Heschel, the prophets had no ideas about God, but had what?
(a) An understanding.
(b) An obedience.
(c) An experience of him.
(d) A relationship.

8. Why does Heschel quote Micah 7:1-7?
(a) To show Micah's intense nature.
(b) To show what the people were like.
(c) To prove Micah is a prophet.
(d) To illustrate God's passions.

9. Jeremiah was a prophet when what happened to Jerusalem?
(a) It became the capital of the Assyrian empire.
(b) It was the center of culture.
(c) It prospered.
(d) It fell.

10. How did Amos describe God's voice calling to him?
(a) As a gentle breeze.
(b) As a small nagging thought.
(c) As a whisper in the night.
(d) As a lion's roar.

11. "The Prophets" was written for which religious groups?
(a) Jews and Christians.
(b) Jews and Muslims.
(c) Christians and Muslims.
(d) Jews and Orthodox.

12. What does Heschel claim is God's ultimate goal?
(a) To chastise people.
(b) To build a people.
(c) To destroy people.
(d) To purify people.

13. Why does Heschel call the prophet he discusses after Habakkuk the "Second Isaiah"?
(a) Because he follows Isaiah.
(b) None of the answers is correct..
(c) Because he is never named.
(d) Because he is Isaiah's son.

14. Who was Mesha?
(a) A prophet.
(b) A herdsman.
(c) King of the Israelites.
(d) King of the Moabites.

15. What change occurs in Second Isaiah toward the people of Israel?
(a) The expectancy of behavior.
(b) The mood.
(c) The attitude.
(d) The tone.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that a prophet looked at things that seemed what to other people?

2. What does Heschel use to solidify his facts about the prophets?

3. Heschel says God hates sin but is also what?

4. Heschel says that God is our father but also our judge, and when he judges us he is also what?

5. Prophets rebuked the inhabitants of cities for things that others would have called what?

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