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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. 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 they had a job to do.
(c) A psychic ability.
(d) The belief that God talked to them.

2. Heschel contends that the prophets were in what state of mind when they received God's call?
(a) State of madness.
(b) State of passivity.
(c) State of consciousness and awareness.
(d) State of ecstasy.

3. The prophet's attitude toward divine reality is described as what?
(a) Pathos.
(b) Sympathy.
(c) Mercy.
(d) Compassion.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Heschel points out that having a friendship with God doesn't mean what?

4. What does Heschel describe as not a goal, but a challenge, a commitment, a state of tension?

5. In addition to using information from Israel's culture, Heschel uses information from what in order to understand the prophets?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Heschel say gives the prophets the courage to speak out?

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

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

4. What is anthropopathy?

5. How does Heschel describe God?

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

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

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

9. How does Heschel describe the concerns of the prophets?

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

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