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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 addition to using information from Israel's culture, Heschel uses information from what in order to understand the prophets?
(a) Cult of the Balaam.
(b) Islamic culture.
(c) Greek culture.
(d) Egyptian culture.

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

3. To what does Heschel compare the words of the prophet?
(a) A breeze.
(b) Wind.
(c) Running water.
(d) Thunder.

4. Heschel admits that pathos is both a paradox and what?
(a) Easy to explain.
(b) A commandment.
(c) A divine concept.
(d) A mystery.

5. One theory for prophets and their inspiration is that they had madness in them that led to what?
(a) The desire to be great.
(b) The belief that God talked to them.
(c) The belief that they had a job to do.
(d) A psychic ability.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who said that what a poet writes is beautiful, if it is written with enthusiasm and divine inspiration?

4. The prophet's attitude toward divine reality is described as what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Marcion?

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

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

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

5. What is Democritus's view of poets and divine inspiration?

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

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

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

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

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

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