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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. Some writers in the Bible say that emotions and feelings have been inspired by whom?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) Mankind.
(c) The devil.
(d) God.

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

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

4. What were the prophets overwhelmed with in addition to emotion?
(a) The need to go off and pray.
(b) The need to be respected.
(c) The need to speak with God.
(d) The need for action.

5. What does Heschel call indifference?
(a) Rational.
(b) Evil.
(c) Unjust.
(d) Good.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Heschel compare the words of the prophet?

2. Jeremiah the prophet said that God delights in what?

3. Who declared ecstasy to be a definitive mark of a prophet?

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

5. In what religion do you do away with all feeling and obtain a type of peace?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe one view of ecstasy and prophets that Heschel describes.

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

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

5. Do all scholars agree with Philo's view of ecstasy and the prophets?

6. How does Heschel describe Tao as an antithesis to the prophetic idea of God?

7. Who was Marcion?

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

9. What is Heschel's theory of ecstasy and the prophets?

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

(see the answer keys)

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