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

2. Who declared ecstasy to be a definitive mark of a prophet?
(a) Alexander.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Philo.
(d) Plato.

3. What does the Stoic sage aim for?
(a) Pathos.
(b) Love.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Sympathy.

4. What does Heschel believe drives a person's desire for ecstasy?
(a) Desire to leave the every day world.
(b) Desire to be connected to gods.
(c) Desire to pray more deeply.
(d) Desire to be different.

5. The nature of man's response to divine reality corresponds to what?
(a) His knowledge of God.
(b) His religious serendipity.
(c) His apprehension of the divine.
(d) His prayer life.

Short Answer Questions

1. To be a prophet means to identify one's concern with what?

2. The fundamental feature of divine reality, present in the prophet's consciousness, is described as what?

3. From the total perspective, what does Heschel say are demands rather than fulfillments?

4. What appears to us as wild emotionalism in the prophets, Heschel says may seem like what to the prophets themselves?

5. What attitude does Heschel take to other points of view that he uses in his book?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Heschel explain the beliefs that the prophets were frauds?

2. To what does Heschel compare the descriptions of prophecy?

3. Why does Heschel say Karma is opposed to prophetic thinking?

4. How does Heschel describe God?

5. What is the purpose of ecstasy, as explained by Heschel?

6. What is one difference between apathy and pathos, as explained by Heschel?

7. Does Heschel say God always been considered a loving and good God?

8. Why does Heschel think it is hard for people to understand the wrath of God?

9. What does Heschel describe as the end to indifference?

10. How does Heschel think much of the Bible should be looked at?

(see the answer keys)

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