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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 wisdom.
(c) His knowledge.
(d) His love.

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

3. What is the origin of pathos?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) Greek.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) Islamic.

4. From the total perspective, what does Heschel say are demands rather than fulfillments?
(a) Prayer and solitude.
(b) Love and forgiveness.
(c) Action and speech.
(d) Pathos and sympathy.

5. Why did some scholars reject the idea of pathos?
(a) Because of its origins.
(b) Because it didn't involve emotions.
(c) Because it involved emotions.
(d) Because it isn't mentioned in the Bible.

6. 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.

7. In addition to using information from Israel's culture, Heschel uses information from what in order to understand the prophets?
(a) Egyptian culture.
(b) Greek culture.
(c) Islamic culture.
(d) Cult of the Balaam.

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

9. In what religion do you do away with all feeling and obtain a type of peace?
(a) Hindu.
(b) Islam.
(c) Karma.
(d) Taoism.

10. Another theory regarding the inspiration of the prophets regarded the prophetic act as what?
(a) An act of rebellion.
(b) An act of unconsciousness.
(c) An act of poetic creation.
(d) An act of madness.

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

12. 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) Prophecy.
(d) Pathos.

13. What does Tao mean?
(a) The person.
(b) The only religion.
(c) Unchangeable.
(d) The way.

14. Heschel contrasts God to other deities, who unlike God, did not have what?
(a) Power to intervene in people's lives.
(b) Power to make heaven and earth.
(c) Power to change history.
(d) Absolute supreme power.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The prophet's attitude toward divine reality is described as what?

2. An emotional religion of sympathy is more compatible with the prophet's mentality than a religion of what?

3. From what civilization do we get the legacy that great poetry comes into being through madness?

4. What does Heschel describe as not a goal, but a challenge, a commitment, a state of tension?

5. What subject area did Philo develop?

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