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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Heschel avoid telling the reader about the prophets' message?
(a) The specific outcome of the message.
(b) The historical context of the message.
(c) Whether the prophet's message was legitimate.
(d) Whether he agrees or disagrees.

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

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

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

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

6. How is it said that God killed the Assyrians?
(a) With fire.
(b) With a disease.
(c) With a flood.
(d) With loss in battle.

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

8. What does Habakkuk ask God directly?
(a) How long and why?
(b) What do you want me to do?
(c) Where are you?
(d) Why do you call me?

9. 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.

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

11. According to Heschel, what is one of the things that caused a need for prophets?
(a) People.
(b) Culture.
(c) History.
(d) Wars.

12. What social ill did Hosea primarily speak out against?
(a) Gluttony.
(b) Infidelity.
(c) Sin in general.
(d) Idolatry.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Heschel, in what way did Hosea differ from Amos?

3. How did Second Isaiah refer to the people of Israel?

4. Pathos is not self-centered but is what kind of thinking?

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

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