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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What people did Amos, Hosea, and Isaiah try to save?
(a) The people of the Western Kingdom.
(b) The people of the Northern Kingdom.
(c) The people of the Eastern Kingdom.
(d) The people of the Southern Kingdom.

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

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

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

6. What does Heschel say plays a part in the message that the prophets bring to the people?
(a) The man and his life.
(b) The situation.
(c) The words themselves.
(d) The way the message is presented.

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

8. Who died the year that Isaiah was called by God?
(a) His son.
(b) The king.
(c) His wife.
(d) The prophet Amos.

9. Heschel says that prophets have a duty to what?
(a) To their time and place.
(b) To their families.
(c) To their religion.
(d) To their countrymen.

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

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

12. In the Old Testament, sacrifices were part of the people's what?
(a) Way of worship.
(b) Way of showing how much they owned.
(c) Way of showing remorse.
(d) Way of honoring their dead families.

13. The prophets were outraged because of what?
(a) Idolatry.
(b) The king's edicts.
(c) People's lack of understanding.
(d) Injustice.

14. What does Heschel say is the basis for the relationship of God and man?
(a) Love.
(b) Religion.
(c) Obedience.
(d) Divine pathos.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Heschel says that God is our father but also our judge, and when he judges us he is also what?

2. What does Heschel say will change God's judgment about destruction?

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

4. According to Heschel, the prophets had no ideas about God, but had what?

5. Who was Hezekiah?

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