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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. From the total perspective, what does Heschel say are demands rather than fulfillments?
(a) Action and speech.
(b) Prayer and solitude.
(c) Love and forgiveness.
(d) Pathos and sympathy.

3. What is the origin of pathos?
(a) Islamic.
(b) Egyptian.
(c) Greek.
(d) Hebrew.

4. The fundamental feature of divine reality, present in the prophet's consciousness, is described as what?
(a) Prophetic religion.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Pathos.
(d) Karma.

5. Heschel states that it is important to distinguish between the objective and subjective aspects of what?
(a) Religious sympathy.
(b) The prophetic consciousness of God.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) Biblical prophecy.

6. Jeremiah the prophet said that God delights in what?
(a) The covenant.
(b) Repentance.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Vengeance.

7. Another theory regarding the inspiration of the prophets regarded the prophetic act as what?
(a) An act of poetic creation.
(b) An act of madness.
(c) An act of unconsciousness.
(d) An act of rebellion.

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

9. Heschel admits that pathos is both a paradox and what?
(a) Easy to explain.
(b) A mystery.
(c) A commandment.
(d) A divine concept.

10. What does Heschel say is an end to indifference?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Vengeance.
(c) God.
(d) Right thinking.

11. Heschel looks at the theory of ecstasy but limits it to what?
(a) Old Testament prophets.
(b) The literary prophets.
(c) The post-exilic prophets.
(d) Early prophets.

12. What does Tao mean?
(a) Unchangeable.
(b) The way.
(c) The person.
(d) The only religion.

13. To be a prophet means to identify one's concern with what?
(a) The concern of the king.
(b) The concern of God.
(c) The concern of the prophet's people.
(d) The concern of Israel.

14. What does Heschel say about a reliable diagnosis of the prophets' mental health?
(a) It has been done by others.
(b) He's not experienced in that area.
(c) It isn't necessary.
(d) It's beyond the reach of the book.

15. From what civilization do we get the legacy that great poetry comes into being through madness?
(a) Jewish.
(b) Egyptian.
(c) Roman.
(d) Greek.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Heschel call indifference?

2. According to Heschel, the prophetic act takes place when the prophet is aware of what?

3. Why did some scholars reject the idea of pathos?

4. One theory for prophets and their inspiration is that they had madness in them that led to what?

5. Heschel said that some of the beliefs that the prophets were frauds came from an era when people wanted what?

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