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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. In early Israel, the gift of poetry was regarded as what?
(a) An intellectual gift.
(b) A psychic ability.
(c) A gift of the Spirit.
(d) A talent.

2. What is the ultimate purpose of ecstasy?
(a) Union with the divine.
(b) Pathos.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Knowledge of one's self.

3. In ancient times, Israel only knew God as what?
(a) Impassible.
(b) Loving.
(c) Mysterious and terrible.
(d) Redemptive.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Heschel links divine inspiration to what?

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

3. When the pathos of God is upon a prophet what happens?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Heschel describe God?

9. What is ecstasy?

10. Why does Heschel call indifference evil?

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