The Prophets Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Prophets Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who declared ecstasy to be a definitive mark of a prophet?
(a) Philo.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Plato.
(d) Alexander.

2. Some writers in the Bible say that emotions and feelings have been inspired by whom?
(a) The devil.
(b) God.
(c) Mankind.
(d) The Greeks.

3. The nature of man's response to divine reality corresponds to what?
(a) His apprehension of the divine.
(b) His religious serendipity.
(c) His knowledge of God.
(d) His prayer life.

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

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

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

7. What cultural/religious doctrines did Philo try to mix in his studies?
(a) Greek and Islamic.
(b) Egyptian and Islamic.
(c) Jewish and Egyptian.
(d) Greek and Jewish.

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

9. What does Heschel define as the belief in the temporary separation of the soul from the body when a person is asleep, sick, or in a trance state?
(a) Sympathy.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Pathos.
(d) Prophecy.

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

11. What is anthropopathy?
(a) Personification.
(b) The attribution of human qualities to animals.
(c) The attribution of God-like qualities to humans.
(d) The attribution of human qualities to gods.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Karma?

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

3. What does Heschel believe drives a person's desire for ecstasy?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer keys)

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