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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom did Jeremiah say would overtake the cities of Judah?
(a) God.
(b) The people of the Northern Kingdom.
(c) The enemies.
(d) The people who lived in Judah before the Israelites.

3. 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.

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

5. Heschel quotes Samuel to show that what was better than sacrifice?
(a) To pray.
(b) To honor your father and mother.
(c) To go to the temple.
(d) To obey.

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

7. 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 has happened in the past in heaven.
(d) What is happening in heaven.

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

9. What does Heschel say the prophets had to endure?
(a) Scorn.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Lack of wealth.
(d) Ill health.

10. How did Second Isaiah refer to the people of Israel?
(a) People who were turning away from God.
(b) People who were searching and working towards righteousness.
(c) People who did not understand their God.
(d) People who were not worshipping their God.

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

12. What does Heschel use to solidify his facts about the prophets?
(a) Opinions of others.
(b) The prophets' own words.
(c) His opinions.
(d) Other parts of the Bible.

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

14. The author states that a prophet looked at things that seemed what to other people?
(a) Odd.
(b) Trivial.
(c) Sacred.
(d) Extraneous.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Hosea have?

2. Micah's concern with the people was that they worshiped what?

3. Jeremiah says that even though people are punished they don't seem to what?

4. Hosea describes Israel as the unfaithful wife and God as Israel's what?

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

(see the answer keys)

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