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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Micah's message?

2. How does Heschel describe the time during Second Isaiah?

3. Heschel says that God is our father but also our judge, and when he judges us he is also what?

4. Jeremiah felt that his time was one of what?

5. Amos began with a message of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why, according to Heschel, do others reject prophets?

2. Why does Jeremiah refer to the people of God as murderers?

3. In what way were Jeremiah and Micah the same?

4. How does God answer Habakkuk when he asks him why and how long this will continue?

5. What type of message did Amos bring to the people?

6. Why can't God be explained, according to Heschel?

7. Why did history cause a need for prophets?

8. What type of man was a prophet, according to Heschel?

9. How did Hosea and Amos differ?

10. What does Heschel say the prophets look toward?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the following prophets: Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk. Compare and contrast them as men and prophets.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss nonfiction. Distinguish it from fiction. In your discussion include genres of nonfiction, their purposes, what types were used in this book, were they used well, etc.

Essay Topic 3

Through their lives and in their prophesies the prophets convey different images or concepts of God. Choose three prophets and compare/contrast their concepts of God.

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