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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Heschel describe freedom?
(a) As a gift from man to God.
(b) As a benefit for humans.
(c) As a right of man.
(d) As a gift from God to man.

2. 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.

3. What was Micah's message?
(a) Love and generosity.
(b) Doom and destruction.
(c) Hope and forgiveness.
(d) Sweetness and light.

4. In Jeremiah, God states that he will have to destroy what he has built. What was he referring to?
(a) The land.
(b) The covenant.
(c) His people.
(d) The temple in Jerusalem.

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

6. How does Heschel describe the time that Jeremiah lived?
(a) One of peace.
(b) One of anger and wrath.
(c) One of injustice.
(d) One of war.

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

8. According to Heschel, how did God show himself to prophets?
(a) In absolutes.
(b) In vague notions.
(c) In totality.
(d) In variables.

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

10. What does Heschel see as the point when freedom is lost?
(a) When a person misuses it.
(b) When God hardens a person's heart.
(c) When a person dies.
(d) When God takes it away.

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

12. According to Heschel, the land at the time of the prophets had judges and laws but they were both without what?
(a) Righteousness.
(b) Love.
(c) Honor.
(d) Obedience.

13. What did Amos speak out against that differed from Hosea?
(a) Accumulation of wealth.
(b) Infidelity.
(c) Negligence.
(d) Injustice.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What changed with Second Isaiah?

2. In order to aid the reader's understanding, Heschel includes an appendix on what subject?

3. What social ill did Hosea primarily speak out against?

4. What happened to prophets when God called them to do his work?

5. Prophets were hypersensitive to what?

(see the answer keys)

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