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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Heschel says that Moses would have taught what kinds of rules of right living to the people?
(a) Unusual rules.
(b) Bizarre rules.
(c) Simple rules.
(d) Complex rules.

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

4. Heschel explains that some think the prophets may have been victims of what?
(a) Religious fervor.
(b) Illusions.
(c) Mental abnormalities.
(d) Hallucinations.

5. What does Heschel believe drives a person's desire for ecstasy?
(a) Desire to be different.
(b) Desire to pray more deeply.
(c) Desire to be connected to gods.
(d) Desire to leave the every day world.

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

7. If ecstasy were a requirement for a prophet, which prophets of the Old Testament would not have been classified as prophets?
(a) Daniel and Zechariah.
(b) Moses and Isaiah.
(c) Second Isaiah and Habakkuk.
(d) Micah and Jonah.

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

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

10. Heschel alludes to the fact that to describe God in any terms implies that God is what?
(a) Not all knowing.
(b) Not all powerful.
(c) Imperfect.
(d) Sinful.

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

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

13. When talking about the inspiration for poetry, who says "One does not ask who gives."
(a) Democritus.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Plato.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Stoic sage aim for?

2. What does Heschel describe as not a goal, but a challenge, a commitment, a state of tension?

3. To what does Heschel compare the words of the prophet?

4. When did Heschel examine the state of mind of the prophets with respect to the theory of ecstasy?

5. Who stated that since the world is so full of filth and sin a just and loving God could not have created it?

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