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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. Whose theory said that the prophets were not talking to God but were making judgments about God's desires from the information they had about God?
(a) Philo.
(b) Spinoza.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Goethe.

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

3. 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) Ecstasy.
(b) Prophecy.
(c) Sympathy.
(d) Pathos.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When talking about the inspiration for poetry, who says "One does not ask who gives."

3. What did God do after the prophet proclaimed the destruction of Nineveh and the people repented?

4. Heschel alludes to the fact that to describe God in any terms implies that God is what?

5. In what belief is there no grace or repentance for sin, just cause and effect?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is anthropopathy?

4. Describe one theory that Heschel discusses regarding prophets and their revelations from God.

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

6. How does Heschel describe God?

7. Why does Heschel call indifference evil?

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

9. What was Spinoza's idea about the prophets and does Heschel agree?

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

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