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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prophets were hypersensitive to what?
(a) Expensive habits.
(b) People calling them crazy.
(c) Religious fanatics.
(d) Things that offended God.

2. Who was Mesha?
(a) A prophet.
(b) King of the Moabites.
(c) King of the Israelites.
(d) A herdsman.

3. What people did Amos, Hosea, and Isaiah try to save?
(a) The people of the Western Kingdom.
(b) The people of the Northern Kingdom.
(c) The people of the Southern Kingdom.
(d) The people of the Eastern Kingdom.

4. Heschel says the problem is not that we depict God incorrectly but what?
(a) He does not see depicting God as a problem.
(b) That we try to depict Him at all.
(c) That we don't know how to depict Him.
(d) That we can't depict Him.

5. How does Heschel describe freedom?
(a) As a benefit for humans.
(b) As a right of man.
(c) As a gift from God to man.
(d) As a gift from man to God.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Heschel describe the time that Jeremiah lived?

2. Why does Heschel call the prophet he discusses after Habakkuk the "Second Isaiah"?

3. What does Heschel use to solidify his facts about the prophets?

4. According to Heschel, how did God show himself to prophets?

5. When did Heschel examine the state of mind of the prophets with respect to the theory of ecstasy?

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