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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What Bible does Heschel use as the source for scripture passages?
(a) The Catholic Bible.
(b) The Jerusalem Bible.
(c) The Hebrew Bible.
(d) The Protestant Bible.

4. Amos began with a message of what?
(a) Doom.
(b) Hope.
(c) Contrition.
(d) Love.

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

6. Heschel says that God is our father but also our judge, and when he judges us he is also what?
(a) Just.
(b) Compassionate.
(c) Vengeful.
(d) Remorseful.

7. Why was Jeremiah imprisoned?
(a) Because he spoke out against the king.
(b) Because of his prophesies.
(c) Because he abandoned the Babylonians.
(d) Because he abandoned the Assyrians.

8. What was another name for Hosea?
(a) Elisha.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Ephraim.
(d) Odem.

9. 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.

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

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

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

13. God answers Habakkuk that God's hand is constantly working even though what?
(a) It isn't what Habakkuk wants.
(b) It is destroying the people.
(c) It is destroying the covenant.
(d) It can't be seen.

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

15. According to Heschel, in what way did Hosea differ from Amos?
(a) In his love for God.
(b) In the way he lived.
(c) In his love for the people.
(d) In his preaching.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Jeremiah, God states that he will have to destroy what he has built. What was he referring to?

2. Jeremiah felt that his time was one of what?

3. Which prophet does Heschel not provide the reader his past?

4. Why does Heschel call the prophet he discusses after Habakkuk the "Second Isaiah"?

5. According to Heschel, the land at the time of the prophets had judges and laws but they were both without what?

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