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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was Marcion?
(a) A Jew.
(b) A Christian.
(c) A Gnostic.
(d) A Greek.

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

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

5. 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) A psychic ability.
(d) The desire to be great.

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

11. 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) Rational.
(b) Passive.
(c) In control.
(d) Taken over by another.

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

13. In ancient times, Israel only knew God as what?
(a) Loving.
(b) Impassible.
(c) Mysterious and terrible.
(d) Redemptive.

14. What appears to us as wild emotionalism in the prophets, Heschel says may seem like what to the prophets themselves?
(a) Sentimentality.
(b) Passion.
(c) Proper behavior.
(d) Restraint.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Heschel says that Moses would have taught what kinds of rules of right living to the people?

3. Heschel contrasts God to other deities, who unlike God, did not have what?

4. Another theory regarding the inspiration of the prophets regarded the prophetic act as what?

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

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