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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the prophets talk about in addition to God's wrath and judgment?
(a) His vengeance.
(b) His love.
(c) His wisdom.
(d) His knowledge.

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

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

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

5. To be a prophet means to identify one's concern with what?
(a) The concern of God.
(b) The concern of the prophet's people.
(c) The concern of Israel.
(d) The concern of the king.

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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) Prophecy.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Pathos.
(d) Sympathy.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did some scholars reject the idea of pathos?

2. What is the ultimate purpose of ecstasy?

3. Some writers in the Bible say that emotions and feelings have been inspired by whom?

4. Heschel contends that the prophets were in what state of mind when they received God's call?

5. Who declared ecstasy to be a definitive mark of a prophet?

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