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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are two unique features of a prophet?
(a) Prayer and mercy.
(b) Forgiveness and suppression of emotion.
(c) Silent subordination and self-love.
(d) Active cooperation and self-dedication to God.

2. In what religion do you do away with all feeling and obtain a type of peace?
(a) Hindu.
(b) Islam.
(c) Karma.
(d) Taoism.

3. The prophet's attitude toward divine reality is described as what?
(a) Mercy.
(b) Pathos.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Sympathy.

4. Heschel links divine inspiration to what?
(a) Divination.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Songs.
(d) Dreams.

5. In ancient times, Israel only knew God as what?
(a) Redemptive.
(b) Mysterious and terrible.
(c) Loving.
(d) Impassible.

6. Heschel contrasts God to other deities, who unlike God, did not have what?
(a) Absolute supreme power.
(b) Power to make heaven and earth.
(c) Power to intervene in people's lives.
(d) Power to change history.

7. What were the prophets overwhelmed with in addition to emotion?
(a) The need to speak with God.
(b) The need to be respected.
(c) The need for action.
(d) The need to go off and pray.

8. According to Heschel, many parts of the Bible should be looked at as what?
(a) Poems.
(b) Essays.
(c) Allegories.
(d) Songs.

9. What prophet did God send to Nineveh?
(a) Micah.
(b) Jonah.
(c) Amos.
(d) Jeremiah.

10. Whose theory said that the prophets were not talking to God but were making judgments about God's desires from the information they had about God?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Philo.
(d) Spinoza.

11. Heschel contends that the prophets were in what state of mind when they received God's call?
(a) State of consciousness and awareness.
(b) State of madness.
(c) State of passivity.
(d) State of ecstasy.

12. What is Karma?
(a) A special relationship to God.
(b) A religion that believes in prophetic thinking.
(c) A way of life.
(d) An opposite to prophetic thinking.

13. Heschel uses prophets from what regions or religions that used ecstasy to verify his viewpoint?
(a) Egypt and Mesopotamia.
(b) Islam and Mesopotamia.
(c) Egypt and Greek.
(d) Shiite and Greek.

14. Heschel said that some of the beliefs that the prophets were frauds came from an era when people wanted what?
(a) Conformity.
(b) Rationality.
(c) Certainty.
(d) Shibboleth.

15. In what belief is there no grace or repentance for sin, just cause and effect?
(a) Islam.
(b) Karma.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Tao.

Short Answer Questions

1. Heschel admits that pathos is both a paradox and what?

2. When the pathos of God is upon a prophet what happens?

3. God's anger is great and to be feared, but God is also what?

4. Who was Marcion?

5. Heschel points out that God's wrath is what?

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