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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. Whose theory said that the prophets were not talking to God but were making judgments about God's desires from the information they had about God?
(a) Philo.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Spinoza.

2. What did Isaiah say that God would do to those who try to honor themselves?
(a) Honor them as well.
(b) Honor their fathers and mothers.
(c) Build them a nation.
(d) Bring them to humility and dishonor.

3. What does Heschel see as the point when freedom is lost?
(a) When God hardens a person's heart.
(b) When God takes it away.
(c) When a person dies.
(d) When a person misuses it.

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

5. What was another name for Hosea?
(a) Elisha.
(b) Ephraim.
(c) Odem.
(d) Joseph.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pathos is not self-centered but is what kind of thinking?

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

3. How many changes in leadership were there during Jeremiah's time?

4. What does understanding God depend on?

5. What does Heschel define as the belief in the temporary separation of the soul from the body when a person is asleep, sick, or in a trance state?

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