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

2. Jeremiah the prophet said that God delights in what?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Repentance.
(c) Vengeance.
(d) The covenant.

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

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

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

6. When did Heschel examine the state of mind of the prophets with respect to the theory of ecstasy?
(a) When they were prophesying.
(b) When they were praying.
(c) When they were speaking.
(d) When they were receiving the words of God.

7. 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) Marcion.
(c) Jonah.
(d) Plato.

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

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

10. How is God's love to man shown?
(a) By giving us a connection with God.
(b) By being righteous.
(c) By giving us what we want.
(d) By showing us what we should do.

11. What did God do after the prophet proclaimed the destruction of Nineveh and the people repented?
(a) God told the prophet to stay in Nineveh.
(b) God relented and saved Nineveh.
(c) God destroyed Nineveh.
(d) God let the people leave Nineveh before he destroyed it.

12. Who said that what a poet writes is beautiful, if it is written with enthusiasm and divine inspiration?
(a) Plato.
(b) Democritus.
(c) Heschel.
(d) Philo.

13. 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.

14. What subject area did Philo develop?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Religious sympathy.
(c) Biblical prophecy.
(d) Biblical translations.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The nature of man's response to divine reality corresponds to what?

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

4. Heschel admits that pathos is both a paradox and what?

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

(see the answer keys)

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