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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 2-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Heschel say will change God's judgment about destruction?
(a) A change in history.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A new prophet's heartfelt request.
(d) A change in man's heart and actions.

2. Heschel describes the words of prophecy as a polarity between what?
(a) Anger and love.
(b) Wrath and justice.
(c) Health and sickness.
(d) Good and bad.

3. In Hosea 9:14 instead of asking God to forgive his people he asked God to deliver them what?
(a) Love.
(b) Wrath.
(c) Vengeance.
(d) Hope.

4. What term does Jeremiah use for the people of God because they refuse to turn themselves toward God?
(a) Lovers of evil.
(b) Murderers.
(c) Adulterers.
(d) Idolaters.

5. In Jeremiah, God states that he will have to destroy what he has built. What was he referring to?
(a) His people.
(b) The covenant.
(c) The land.
(d) The temple in Jerusalem.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the book of Habakkuk?

2. The author describes what era in the Old Testament?

3. Why was Jeremiah imprisoned?

4. Heschel points out that God's wrath is what?

5. What did Mesha sacrifice to appease his idols during wartime?

(see the answer key)

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