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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Jeremiah imprisoned?
(a) Because he abandoned the Assyrians.
(b) Because he abandoned the Babylonians.
(c) Because he spoke out against the king.
(d) Because of his prophesies.

2. What change occurs in Second Isaiah toward the people of Israel?
(a) The tone.
(b) The expectancy of behavior.
(c) The attitude.
(d) The mood.

3. According to Heschel, the prophets had no ideas about God, but had what?
(a) A relationship.
(b) An understanding.
(c) An obedience.
(d) An experience of him.

4. Who died the year that Isaiah was called by God?
(a) The prophet Amos.
(b) His wife.
(c) The king.
(d) His son.

5. Prophets rebuked the inhabitants of cities for things that others would have called what?
(a) Acceptable.
(b) Wondrous.
(c) Sinful.
(d) Unjust.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Heschel claim is God's ultimate goal?

2. How many changes in leadership were there during Jeremiah's time?

3. What social ill did Hosea primarily speak out against?

4. Whom did the prophets blame for the injustices in the land?

5. According to Heschel, in what way did Hosea differ from Amos?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Amos?

2. What type of message did Amos bring to the people?

3. What type of man was a prophet, according to Heschel?

4. Why does Heschel say that the tone changes toward the people of Israel while Second Isaiah is the prophet?

5. Who is Second Isaiah?

6. Did the prophets feel differently about sin than others?

7. Why did the people try to run Amos out of the city of Judah?

8. What does Heschel say the prophets look toward?

9. In what way were Jeremiah and Micah the same?

10. Why was Jeremiah called the prophet of wrath?

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