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

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

3. How is God's love to man shown?
(a) By giving us what we want.
(b) By being righteous.
(c) By showing us what we should do.
(d) By giving us a connection with God.

4. Heschel contrasts God to other deities, who unlike God, did not have what?
(a) Power to change history.
(b) Power to make heaven and earth.
(c) Absolute supreme power.
(d) Power to intervene in people's lives.

5. In what religion do you do away with all feeling and obtain a type of peace?
(a) Taoism.
(b) Islam.
(c) Karma.
(d) Hindu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Heschel uses prophets from what regions or religions that used ecstasy to verify his viewpoint?

2. The nature of man's response to divine reality corresponds to what?

3. Why did some scholars reject the idea of pathos?

4. Heschel explains that some think the prophets may have been victims of what?

5. What is anthropopathy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who was Marcion?

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

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

10. What is ecstasy?

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