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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) Karma.
(b) Islam.
(c) Tao.
(d) Christianity.

2. What attitude does Heschel take to other points of view that he uses in his book?
(a) Derogatory.
(b) Respectful.
(c) Supportive.
(d) Disparaging.

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

4. What does the Stoic sage aim for?
(a) Sympathy.
(b) Pathos.
(c) Love.
(d) Apathy.

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

6. 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.

7. What does Heschel describe as not a goal, but a challenge, a commitment, a state of tension?
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) Prophetic sympathy.
(c) Prophetic ethos.
(d) Pathos.

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

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

11. Who stated that since the world is so full of filth and sin a just and loving God could not have created it?
(a) Plato.
(b) Jonah.
(c) Philo.
(d) Marcion.

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

13. What is the ultimate purpose of ecstasy?
(a) Union with the divine.
(b) Pathos.
(c) Knowledge of one's self.
(d) Apathy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. An emotional religion of sympathy is more compatible with the prophet's mentality than a religion of what?

2. If ecstasy were a requirement for a prophet, which prophets of the Old Testament would not have been classified as prophets?

3. From what civilization do we get the legacy that great poetry comes into being through madness?

4. Heschel states that it is important to distinguish between the objective and subjective aspects of what?

5. How is God's love to man shown?

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