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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. One view that Heschel discusses is that an outstanding feature of a poet's consciousness is the sense of being what at the moment of inspiration?
(a) Passive.
(b) Taken over by another.
(c) In control.
(d) Rational.

4. According to Heschel, the prophetic act takes place when the prophet is aware of what?
(a) The belief that something is happening to him.
(b) The lack of knowledge about who is the source of his inspiration.
(c) The source of his inspiration is God.
(d) The lack of complete consciousness.

5. What does Heschel call indifference?
(a) Evil.
(b) Rational.
(c) Unjust.
(d) Good.

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

7. 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 try to depict Him at all.
(c) That we can't depict Him.
(d) He does not see depicting God as a problem.

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

9. What is Karma?
(a) A religion that believes in prophetic thinking.
(b) A special relationship to God.
(c) A way of life.
(d) An opposite to prophetic thinking.

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

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

12. One theory for prophets and their inspiration is that they had madness in them that led to what?
(a) The belief that God talked to them.
(b) The belief that they had a job to do.
(c) The desire to be great.
(d) A psychic ability.

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

14. Heschel points out that God's wrath is what?
(a) Vengeful.
(b) Terrible.
(c) Like people's wrath.
(d) Righteous and just.

15. God's anger is great and to be feared, but God is also what?
(a) Compassionate.
(b) Just.
(c) Vengeful.
(d) Rational.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Heschel explains that some think the prophets may have been victims of what?

3. In what religion do you do away with all feeling and obtain a type of peace?

4. From the total perspective, what does Heschel say are demands rather than fulfillments?

5. Heschel alludes to the fact that to describe God in any terms implies that God is what?

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