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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Prophets were hypersensitive to what?
(a) Religious fanatics.
(b) Expensive habits.
(c) Things that offended God.
(d) People calling them crazy.

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

5. What term does Jeremiah use for the people of God because they refuse to turn themselves toward God?
(a) Idolaters.
(b) Adulterers.
(c) Murderers.
(d) Lovers of evil.

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

7. Heschel says that Jeremiah is often called a prophet of what?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Love.
(c) Wrath.
(d) Doom.

8. Micah lived about the same time as what other prophet?
(a) Amos.
(b) Isaiah.
(c) Jeremiah.
(d) Hosea.

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

10. What happened to prophets when God called them to do his work?
(a) They were shunned.
(b) They were shown respect.
(c) They were honored.
(d) They were glorified.

11. What does Heschel say that Habakkuk is tormented by?
(a) The great lack of worshipping the true God.
(b) The lack of listening to the prophets.
(c) The fact that God allows evil to prevail.
(d) The idolatry of the people.

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

13. Who was Hezekiah?
(a) A king.
(b) A prophet.
(c) A brother of Isaiah.
(d) A shepherd.

14. Micah's concern with the people was that they worshiped what?
(a) Gold.
(b) The work of their own hands.
(c) Multiple gods.
(d) Golden calves.

15. In Hosea 9:14 instead of asking God to forgive his people he asked God to deliver them what?
(a) Vengeance.
(b) Love.
(c) Hope.
(d) Wrath.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Micah's message?

2. What promise did God give with Second Isaiah?

3. For what does Heschel say God wants his people to obey?

4. "The Prophets" was written for which religious groups?

5. Before Amos was called by God what was his job?

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