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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In contrast to the Stoic sage, Heschel characterizes the prophet as what?
(a) Sui generis.
(b) Homo apathetikos.
(c) Homo sympathetikos.
(d) Homo sapiens.

2. Heschel says the problem is not that we depict God incorrectly but what?
(a) That we don't know how to depict Him.
(b) That we can't depict Him.
(c) That we try to depict Him at all.
(d) He does not see depicting God as a problem.

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

4. When was Marcion expelled from his church?
(a) 144 C.E.
(b) 134 C.E.
(c) 100 C.E.
(d) 150 C.E.

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

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

7. When the pathos of God is upon a prophet what happens?
(a) He becomes apathetic.
(b) He becomes compassionate.
(c) He becomes angry.
(d) He becomes overwhelmed.

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

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

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

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

12. Heschel points out that having a friendship with God doesn't mean what?
(a) That we are equal with God.
(b) That we can get what we ask for.
(c) That we can understand everything about God.
(d) That we can stop seeking God.

13. In addition to using information from Israel's culture, Heschel uses information from what in order to understand the prophets?
(a) Greek culture.
(b) Egyptian culture.
(c) Islamic culture.
(d) Cult of the Balaam.

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

15. In early Israel, the gift of poetry was regarded as what?
(a) A psychic ability.
(b) A gift of the Spirit.
(c) A talent.
(d) An intellectual gift.

Short Answer Questions

1. To be a prophet means to identify one's concern with what?

2. To what does Heschel compare the descriptions of prophecy?

3. The prophet's attitude toward divine reality is described as what?

4. When talking about the inspiration for poetry, who says "One does not ask who gives."

5. Heschel looks at the theory of ecstasy but limits it to what?

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